Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom -Toussaint ( born September 16, 1812 in Alkmaar, † April 13, 1886 in The Hague) was a Dutch writer. Anna Bosboom is one of the most important representatives of Romanticism in the Netherlands.

Life

Toussaint was born in the Dutch city of Alkmaar. On April 16, 1833 closed the base classes from an exam. Soon after, she found her calling in the Netherlands font. After she was married in 1851 with the Dutch painter Johannes Bosboom, she moved from Alkmaar to Den Haag. The " Vrouwen van Nederland " ( Women of the Netherlands ) devoted their a monument on her grave. Your permanent memorial is guaranteed by the novels she wrote that she wrote in a half-century literary activity.

Anna Bosboom -Toussaint is counted among the most important Dutch artists of the 19th century. After she had awakened with her novel Almagro (1837 ) Great Expectations, was also the acclaimed novel De graaf van Devonshire (1838 ). Both works were influenced by English Romanticism. In the following years she moved at the instigation of the editor Potgieter their focus on the history of their country. Thus, the novel Het huis Lauer Esse (1840 ), which further improved their reputation, and the other works followed arose. Of all of these novels, the trilogy De Delftsche deserves wonderdokter ( The healer of Delft ) ( 1870/1871 ) special mention as one of the major works of Anna Bosboom. As an author she is today but also particularly known for its contemporary novel Majoor Frans (1874 ), which is about a young girl who was raised by his father as a boy.

Works

  • Almagro (1837 );
  • De Graaf van Devonshire, Romantic Episodes uit de jeugd van Elizabeth Tudor (1838 );
  • Engels te Rome, rome epis. uit de regering van Paus Sixtus V, 2 volumes (1839 );
  • Het huis Lauer Esse, 2 volumes (1840 );
  • Een kroon voor Karel the Stoute (1842 );
  • Verspreide Verhalen (1843 );
  • Ximenes - Alba - Orsini. Drie stories uit Spanje, 2 volumes (1842 );
  • Negen short stories - a collection of nine short stories (1846 );
  • Leycester in Nederland, Trilogy (1846 );
  • Diana (1847 );
  • Mejonkvr. de Mauléon (1847 );
  • Fantasies in December 1848 (1848);
  • Gedenkschrift van de inhuldiging of Konings Willem III within de Hoofdstad the Rijks (12 May 1849);
  • Het huis Honselaarsdijk in 1631, historical novel in 2 volumes (1849 );
  • De vrouwen uit het Leycestersche tijdvak trilogy (1849-1850);
  • Moedervreugde s moederlijden. Fantasies (1850 );
  • Eenige schetsen (1850 );
  • Media Noche ( about 1851 )
  • Een tafereel uit the Nijmeegschen vredehandel (1852 );
  • Don Abbondio II ( L853 );
  • De Alkmaarsche wees en eenige other novellen (1854 );
  • Gideon Florensz " historical novel, 4 volumes ( 1854-1855 );
  • Historical novels (1856 );
  • Een Leydsch student in 1593 hist novel (1858 );
  • Graaf Pepoli. De roman van een rijk edelman, Trilogy (1860 );
  • De triomf van Pisani (1861 );
  • De bloemschilderes Maria van Oosterwijk (1862 );
  • De terugkeer van Golgotha ​​(1862 );
  • Het Laatst bedrijf van een Stormachtig leven (1864 );
  • De verrassing van Hoey in 1595, 2 volumes (1866 );
  • Frits en Millioen zijne vrienden. Eeny vertelling, 2 volumes (1868 );
  • De Delftsche wonderdokter, trilogy (1870-1871, 1883);
  • Majoor Frans (1877 );
  • Raymond de schrijnwerker (1880 ).

Some of the stories of Anna Bosboom were first published in magazines or yearbooks, including the famous De Gid. An anthology with their romantic collected works, novels and short stories was published in 1884 in The Hague.

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