Cissy van Marxveldt

Cissy van Marxveldt
Born	Setske de Haan 24 November 1889(1889-11-24) Oranjewoud, Netherlands
Died	31 October 1948(1948-10-31) (aged 58) Bussum, Netherlands
Pen name	Cissy van Marxveldt
Nationality	Dutch
Spouse(s)	Leo Beek (1916–1944)
Children	Leo and IJnze
Influenced Anne Frank

Setske de Haan (24 November 1889 – 31 October 1948), better known by her pen name Cissy van Marxveldt, was a Dutch writer of children's books. She is the author of the series of Joop ter Heul novels.

Biography

Setske de Haan was born on 24 November 1889 in the village Oranjewoud in the province Friesland in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of IJnze de Haan, a headmaster and history teacher, and Froukje de Groot.^[1]

In 1914, she met Leo Beek, a department store manager as well as a reserve infantry officer. They married on 2 February 1916 and had two sons, Leo and IJnze. Her husband was arrested and later executed at Westerbork transit camp in 1944, though it was 1946 before she learned of his fate. She died on 31 October 1948 in Bussum, Netherlands.^[1]

Career in writing

Cover of the first Joop ter Heul novel

De Haan began her literary career by writing articles and stories for Dutch magazines. In the year she married, she published the first book in her sequence of novels about the headstrong Joop ter Heul. The books, similar in theme to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, take the form of diary notes and letters, following the fortunes of Joop and her friends from girlhood to marriage in five volumes:

• The High School Years of Joop ter Heul (1919)
• Joop ter Heul's Problems (1921)
• Joop ter Heul gets Married (1923)
• Joop and her Boys (1925)
• Joop ter Heul's Daughter (1946)

Her Joop ter Heul novels for teenage girls had a notable influence on the writings of Anne Frank, who addressed her diary letters to an imaginary friend, whom all of Anne's researchers - and Anne's friend Kitty Egyedi herself - believe was based on one of Marxveldt's characters whom Joop was constantly writing to: Kitty Francken.

Marxveldt also wrote many other books for young people, "Een Zomerzotheid" ("A Crazy Summer") being particularly popular.

She dedicated her last book She Suffered Too to her husband, after she learned of his death.

Bibliography

During her life, Cissy van Marxveldt published 27 books. Two books were published posthumously.^[2]

• Game - and set! (1917)
• Het hoogfatsoen van Herr Feuer: herinneringen aan mijn Duitschen kantoortijd (1918)
• De H.B.S. tijd van Joop ter Heul (1919)
• Caprices (1922)
• De Kingfordschool (1922)
• Joop ter Heul's problemen (1923)
• Joop van Dil-ter Heul (1923)
• Het nieuwe begin (1924)
• Rekelv (1924)
• Burgemeester's tweeling (1925)
• De Stormers (1925)
• Joop en haar jongen (1925)
• Kwikzilver (1926)
• Een zomerzotheid (1927)
• De Arcadia: een genoeglijke reis naar Spitsbergen (1928)
• De louteringkuurv (1928)
• Herinneringen: verzamelde schetsen (1928)
• Marijke (1929)
• Confetti (1930)
• Puck van Holten (1931)
• De toekomst van Marijke (1932)
• Marijke's bestemming (1934)
• De enige weg (1935)
• Hazehart (1937)
• Pim 'de stoetel' (1937)
• De dochter van Joop ter Heul (1946)
• Ook zij maakte het mee (1946)
• De blokkendoos (1950)
• Mensen uit een klein dorp (1950)

See also

Children's literature portal

• Joop ter Heul

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gelder, Henk van (2008-03-13). "Haan, Setske de (1889-1948)". Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn5/haan. Retrieved 2008-07-26. 
2. ^ "Cissy van Marxveldt 1889-1948". Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren. http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=marx002. Retrieved 2008-07-26. 

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Name	Marxveldt, Cissy van
Alternative names
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Date of birth	24 November 1889
Place of birth	Oranjewoud, Netherlands
Date of death	31 October 1948
Place of death	Bussum, Netherlands