Carry van Bruggen

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Carry van Bruggen

Carry van Bruggen (actually Carolina Lea de Haan ), pseudonym : Justine Abbing (born January 1, 1881 in Smilde , † November 16, 1932 in Laren ) was a Dutch writer .

Life

Carry van Bruggen, one of Jacob Israël de Haan's sisters , grew up in Zaandam . In 1904 she married Cornelis Johannes Antonius van Bruggen (1874–1960), this marriage was divorced in 1917. In 1920 she married the art historian Adriaan Pit . She died mentally confused.

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Her novels have strong autobiographical traits. It describes the living conditions in Jewish society and their isolation within a non-Jewish environment. This is how Het huisje aan de sloot deals with the fate of a Jewish family in a city that is perceived as cold and hostile; De Verlatene (1910) is the portrait of a traditional father who is abandoned by his children for a life in a world that is alien to himself.

Works (selection)

  • Heleen (1913)
  • Een coquette vrouw (1915)
  • Prometheus (1919)
  • Het huisje aan de sloot (1921)
  • Eva (1927); (German tailwind of desire , 2010, ISBN 978-3-86840-003-8 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the encyclopedia of Jewish women