Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken

Betje Wolff was born Elizabeth Bekker in Vlissingen on 24 July 1738 and in 1759 married the pastor Adriaan Wolff, thirty years her senior, with whom she shared the parsonage of Middenbeemster. Aagje Deken, born in 1741 in Nieuwer-Amstel, grew up in the Amsterdam orphanage of the Oranje Appel. They met in October 1776 and, after the pastor's death, lived and wrote together, at De Rijp and then at Beverwijk. As Patriots, they went into exile in 1788 to Trévoux, in Burgundy, and returned ruined in 1797 to settle in The Hague. Betje died on 5 November 1804, Aagje nine days later.

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• NovelHistorie van mejuffrouw Sara BurgerhartBetje Wolff and Aagje Deken · 1782not translated into EnglishLiterature