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Maria Petronella Woesthoven (1760 - 1830)

Short name Maria Petronella Woesthoven
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First name Maria Petronella
Birth name Woesthoven
Married name
Alternative name Maria Petronella Elter -Woesthoven
Date of birth 1760
Date of death 1830
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Sex Female
Place of birth Dantumawoude (Friesland)
Place of death Amsterdam
Lived in Netherlands
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Religion / ideology Protestant
Education Educated at home
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Elter, Samuel 1785-1803
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*Poem in Lykzangen op ds. R. Schutte (1785) 1 0
De lof der vaderlandsche zeevaart (1787) 0 0
Klagt op het graf van den geneesheer Rauwenhoff overleden den 6den februarij 1818 (1818) 0 0
Gedichten (1859) 0 0

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Circulations of Maria Petronella Woesthoven, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Maria Petronella Woesthoven, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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*Mention in Beknopte geschiedenis der letteren [...] Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen 1821 comments on person
*Lemma in Nieuw biografisch ... woordenboek Aa, Abraham Jakob van der 1846 comments on person
*Lemma in Handwoordenboek der Vaderlandsche geschiedenis H. Verwoert 1851 comments on person
*Lemma in Biografisch woordenboek der Nederlanden *Lemma in Biografisch woordenboek der Nederlanden Aa, Abraham Jakob van der 1852 comments on person
*Lemma in Beknopt biografisch ... handwoordenboek Jan Christiaan Kobus , Rivecourt, Willem George Hendrik de 1854 comments on person
*Text anthologized in schoolbook Gerrit Engelberts Gerrits 1855 comments on person
*Lemma in Neêrlands beroemde personen Jacobus Wilhelmus Regt 1869 comments on person
*Lemma in Biografisch woordenboek Branden, Frans Josef Peter van den , J. G. Frederiks 1888 comments on person
*Maria Petronella Woesthoven mention in Gesch. der Nederlandsche Letterkunde Jonckbloet, W.J.A. 1891 -

MENTIONED IN:
- Heinemeyer C-E 317
- A.J. van der Aa, Parelen uit de lettervruchten van Nederlandsche dichteressen. Amsterdam, Hassels, 1856.
- NNBW 1911-1937
- Ter Laan 1941 see link DBNL
- Lauwerkrans 1997, p. 727-731, 737 online-portrait in DVN

NOT MENTIONED IN:
van den Berg/Couttenier 2009
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Lived in
Den Haag (Zuid-Holland, NLD)
Oostzaan (Noord-Holland, NLD)
Wageningen (Gelderland, NLD)

HOVO Utrecht 2013

Married to Samuel Elter in 1785 in Amsterdam. Divorced in 1803. (DVN) 1 son (Frederik Joannes Bruinvis).

Won awards for her poetry in 1787/88/89.
Was active in social and political debates.

Material in the Letterkundig Museum, letters from Willem Bilderdijk and to Samuel Elter. (GR0714)

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