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Jeanette van den Bergh van Eysinga-Elias
1880–1957
A Dutch writer and feminist from Amsterdam, she is remembered both for her own literary work and for helping keep Multatuli’s writing in circulation. Her life bridged literature, scholarship, and the early twentieth-century women’s movement.
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Multatuli Onze groote schrijvers, deel 2
by Jeanette van den Bergh van Eysinga-Elias
About the author
Born in Amsterdam in 1880, Jeanne (also published as Jeanette) van den Bergh van Eysinga-Elias was a Dutch writer and feminist. Sources identify her as the daughter of Wouter Hendrik Elias and Anna Maria Hulshoff, and note that she later married the theologian Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga.
Her name is closely linked with Dutch literary culture through works connected to Multatuli. Library and catalog records credit her with editions of De Geschiedenis van Woutertje Pieterse and with Multatuli in the series Onze groote schrijvers, showing her role as both writer and editor.
She died in Lausanne in 1957. While detailed biographical material appears to be limited online, the available records present her as a figure who moved between literature, publishing, and feminist public life in the Netherlands.