Smith, Machteld (1749 - 1821)
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Short name | Smith, Machteld |
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VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/74723198 |
First name | Machteld |
Birth name | Combrinck |
Married name | Grabe, Schmidt |
Alternative name | Machtilt Schmidt — Magtildt Schmidt — Matilda Smith — Machteld Schmidt — Machtelt Smit — Juffrouw M.E.S |
Date of birth | 1749 |
Date of death | 1821 |
Flourishing | - |
Sex | Female |
Place of birth | Cape Town |
Place of death | Cape Town |
Lived in | Cape Town , Roodezand |
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Religion / ideology | Protestant |
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Aristocratic title | - |
Professional or ecclesiastical title | Deaconess |
Grabe, Johannes | Widowed | |
Schmidt, Johannes | Widowed |
Smith, Machteld was ...
acquaintance | Ritsema van Lier, Helperus |
correspondent and friend | Lier, Catharina Allegonda van |
Profession(s) | Teacher/governess |
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Place(s) of Residence | Cape Town , Roodezand |
Author of
receptions | circulations | |
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*Dutch version of: Memoir of Mrs. Matilda Smith, late of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope (1824) | 1 | 0 |
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Receptions of Smith, Machteld, the person
For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.
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Hoofstuk V. 'n Satiriese digter oor die eerste oorgawe van die Kaap, sy teenstanders en mistieke tydgenote. 3. Dagboek-houer, mistieke digteres, Catharina Allegonda van Lier | 1934 | references person |
Included in Beek & Van Niekerk 2019. Her father was of slave descent (FT 2025).
Biography by Karel Schoeman (1997): Dogter van Sion: Machtelt Smit en die 18de-eeuse samelewing aan die Kaap, 1749-1799. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau.
Fragments of her diary were published in Dutch in the journal Kaapsche Cyclopedie (1833).