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Augusta van Slooten
Stories for young readers, domestic fiction, and children’s tales gave this Dutch writer a quiet but varied place in early 20th-century literature. Her books range from lively girls’ novels to later work set in the Dutch East Indies.
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Mieke : een verhaal voor jonge meisjes
by Augusta van Slooten
About the author
Augusta van Slooten was a Dutch author whose known works include fiction for young readers and children. Records gathered from Dutch literary and library sources show titles such as Mieke, De broer van mevrouw, Lots dwaze tijd, Luilekkerland, and the later novel Waar het bamboe ruischt.
Some catalogs also connect her with the pseudonyms Mary van Loon and Ankje Fransen, suggesting she published under more than one name. The surviving public record seems fairly sparse, but her bibliography points to an active writing career in the first decades of the 20th century, especially in books aimed at girls and family reading.
Because readily available biographical details are limited, the books themselves are the clearest guide to her work: approachable fiction, often centered on young women, home life, and moral or social choices, with later titles reflecting a colonial-era Dutch setting.