Deken, Agatha (1741 - 1804)
| Short name | Deken, Agatha |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/76424781/ |
| First name | Agatha |
| Birth name | Deken |
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| Alternative name | Aagje Deken |
| Date of birth | 1741 |
| Date of death | 1804 |
| Flourishing | 1775 - 1804 |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Amstelveen |
| Place of death | Den Haag |
| Lived in | Nes aan de Amstel (Noord-Holland) , De Rijp (Noord-Holland) , Trévoux , Den Haag , Beverwijk , Amsterdam |
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| Father | |
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| Religion / ideology | Protestant |
| Education | |
| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | Writer |
Deken, Agatha was ...
| related to | Maria Louiza Griethuizen - Carelius |
| collaborator , friend and professional colleague | Wolff, Elisabeth |
| related to | Dóll-Egges, Catharina Maria |
| related to | Post, Elisabeth Maria |
| collaborator , friend and professional colleague | Maria Bosch |
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| Place(s) of Residence | Nes aan de Amstel (Noord-Holland) (1741-1745) , De Rijp (Noord-Holland) (1777-1781) , Trévoux (1788-1797) , Den Haag (1797-1804) , Beverwijk (1781-1788) , Amsterdam (1745-1777) |
Receptions of Deken, Agatha, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
MENTIONED IN LITERARY HISTORY: - A.J. van der Aa, Parelen uit de lettervruchten van Nederlandsche dichteressen. Amsterdam, Hassels, 1856. - NNBW 1911-1937 - Ter Laan 1941 (DBNL portrait) - Chapter in: Knuvelder, Beknopt handboek tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandse letterkunde. 1982 (10th ed.), p. 196, 225, 228, 235-8. - Van Bork en Verkruijsse,1985 (DBNL) - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "A letter to Betje Wolff, full of reproach because of her supposedly worldly behaviour and mockery of religious matters, led to friendship and a lifelong literary co-operation". - Lauwerkrans 1997, p. 4, 7, 10, 12, 29, 46, 47, 49, 60, 74-77, 79, 84, 86, 94, 398, 401, 619-621, 653, 659-665, 667, 696, 742, 751, 763, 768, 807, 819. - Chapter in: Stouten, Hanna, "Elisabeth-Wolff-Bekker et Agatha Deken". In: Stouten, Hanna, Jaap Goedegebuure et Frits van Oostrom (éds.), Histoire de la littérature néerlandaise. Paris, Fayard, 1999, pp.361-369. - van den Berg/Couttenier 2009, p. 114-7, 546 - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 658. - The Pantheon of Museum of Dutch literary history, as one of the xx women out of the xx writers born before 1900 (cf. born after 1900: xx women, xx men) (svdjan11) - De Vries, Een stad vol lezers 2011 Cf. also: - Buijnsters - Zengers 2003 - Heinemeyer C-E 211
Contributor to periodical press (Almanak voor vrouwen door vrouwen - cf. Zengers 2003, also Buijnsters 1979)
Co-habitation with partner female (with Maria Bosch and later with Elizabeth Wolff-Bekker)
MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p. 35ss: critique of institutional marriage