Ida (Ida Sarah) Heijermans

Born in 1866, Ida Sarah Heijermans was a Dutch teacher and author who wrote for younger readers. She is remembered especially for girls' books and other youth-oriented writing, alongside her career in education.

Heijermans published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period when children's literature often aimed to entertain while also guiding readers in questions of character, responsibility, and family life. That mix of storytelling and instruction can be felt in the way her work is still described today.

She died in 1943. Although she is not widely known outside Dutch literary history, her books offer a glimpse of the reading world created for children and adolescents in the Netherlands more than a century ago.