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Johanna van Woude
1853–1904
A Dutch novelist and editor who balanced a busy family life with an active literary career, she wrote popular fiction that spoke especially to women readers in the late nineteenth century.
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by Johanna van Woude
About the author
Born in Tiel on November 23, 1853, Johanna van Woude was the pen name of Sophie Margaretha Cornelia van Wermeskerken-Junius. She was a Dutch writer and magazine editor, and sources describe her as especially well known under that pseudonym.
She combined writing with motherhood and became a popular author in her time, even though some literary critics of the Tachtigers circle looked down on her work. She also helped shape the reading world around her by editing the girls' magazine De Hollandsche Lelie.
Van Woude died in Utrecht on November 26, 1904. Her work and life are still remembered in Dutch literary reference sources, where she appears both as a novelist and as an editor with a distinct place in nineteenth-century Dutch literature.