author
Dina Mollinger-Hooyer
1871–1940
A Dutch writer who published under the pen name Ellen, she is remembered for introspective fiction and poetry shaped by feeling, music, and inner life. Her work has endured in part through the novel De Pop van Elisabeth Gehrke, which is still available to readers today.
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De Pop van Elisabeth Gehrke
by Dina Mollinger-Hooyer
About the author
Born as Dina Cornelia Hooijer in Schellinkhout on December 6, 1871, she later became known as Dina Mollinger-Hooyer. Dutch reference sources identify her as a novelist and poet, and note that she also used the pseudonym Ellen.
She lived in Arnhem and moved in musical as well as literary circles. Sources about composer Jan van Gilse describe her as a singer and lyric writer who inspired several of his works, suggesting that her creative life reached beyond fiction alone.
Her best-known surviving title is De Pop van Elisabeth Gehrke, a psychologically minded novel that remained notable enough to be preserved by Project Gutenberg. She died in Arnhem on May 14, 1940, leaving behind a small but intriguing body of work from Dutch literary life in the early twentieth century.