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Jeanne Kloos-Reyneke van Stuwe
1874–1951
A prolific Dutch novelist and journalist, she reached a wide readership with emotionally charged, realistic fiction and an astonishingly large body of work. Her life moved between colonial Java, the Dutch literary world, and a long, complicated marriage to poet Willem Kloos.
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Het vroolijke leven
by Jeanne Kloos-Reyneke van Stuwe
About the author
Born in Surakarta, Java, in 1874, she became known in Dutch literature as Jeanne Reyneke van Stuwe, and also as Jeanne Kloos-Reyneke van Stuwe after her marriage. She died in The Hague in 1951.
She began publishing young and proved remarkably productive, writing novels, stories, journalism, and later memoir-like work. Sources describe her as a successful and widely read Dutch author, with Hartstocht often noted among her better-known titles.
Her marriage to the poet Willem Kloos tied her closely to the literary culture of her time, but her own career stands out for its sheer scale and steady popularity. Today she is remembered as a significant, once widely read voice in Dutch prose fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.