Cissy van Marxveldt

Setske de Haan (born November 24, 1889 in Oranjewoud, Heerenveen , † October 31, 1948 in Bussum ), better known under her pseudonym Cissy van Marxveldt , was a Dutch writer and author of children's books . She is best known for her stories about the teenage girls around Joop ter Heul .

Life

Setske de Haan was born on November 24, 1889 in Oranjewoud, a suburb of the city of Heerenveen in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of the history teacher and headmaster IJnze de Haan and Froukje de Groot.

In 1914 she met Leon Beek, a reserve officer in the infantry who later became a department store manager. They married on February 2, 1916. The marriage resulted in sons IJnze and Leo. In the course of the occupation of the Netherlands by Germany , Beek was imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp and murdered in Overveen in 1944 . De Haan did not find out about his fate until 1946. She died in Bussum on October 31, 1948 .

Writing activity

Cissy van Marxvelt took her first literary steps with a job for Dutch magazines.

Joop ter Heul

In 1916, the year of their marriage, she began with the first story about the idiosyncratic backfish Joop ter Heul , which was to form the beginning of a series of books . Here she was significantly influenced by Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women . Five books appeared in the series:

- De HBS tijd van Joop ter Heul (1919)
Joop ter Heuls problems (1921)
Joop van Dil-ter Heul (1923)
Joop en hair juggling (1925)
The wicked van Joop ter Heul (1946)

Van Marxveldt's novels had a great influence on Anne Frank , who wrote her entries in the form of letters in her diary and addressed them to Kitty, a person from the Joop ter Heul novels.

Other works

Game - and set! (1917) (in 1923 uitgegeven as Vriendinnen en in 1950 as Op own benen )
Het hoogfatsoen van Herr Feuer: herinneringen aan mijn Duitschen kantoortijd (1917)
Caprices (1922)
De Kingfordschool (1922)
Het nieuwe begin (1924)
Rekel (1924)
De Stormers (1925) (na 1940 uitgegeven as Burgemeesters tweeling)
Kwikzilver (1926)
Een zomerzotheid (1927)
De Arcadia: een genoeglijke reis naar Spitsbergen (1928)
De louteringkuur (1928)
Herinneringen: verzamelde schetsen (1928)
Marijke (1929)
Confetti (1930)
Puck van Holten (1931)
De toekomst van Marijke (1932)
Marijkes bestemming (1934)
De enige weg (1935)
Pim 'de stoetel' (1937)
De laatste weken van Anke Reinalda: Over-Tjongersche vertelling (in de bundel Als het wintert ...) (1939)
Hazehart (1946)
Ook zij maakte het mee (1946)
De blokkendoos (1950) (postuum uit brought)
Canteens uit een klein dorp (1950) (posthumous)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Henk van Gelder: Haan, Setske de (1889–1948). Huygens Institute of History, March 13, 2008, accessed October 28, 2016 (Dutch).

personal data
SURNAME	Marxveldt, Cissy van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haan, Setske de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch author of children's books
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oranjewoud, Heerenveen , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1948
Place of death	Bussum , Netherlands

[inghist-1] Henk van Gelder: Haan, Setske de (1889–1948). Huygens Institute of History, March 13, 2008, accessed October 28, 2016 (Dutch).