b. 24 July 1738. d. 5 November 1804. Nationality: Dutch. VIAF.
Novelist, poet, and translator. Alternative signature: “Elizabeth Wolff-Bekker.” Wrote
moral-philosophical and didactic poetry. Married Adriaan Wolff, a Dutch Reformed minister,
in 1759. Close literary partnership with Aagje (Agatha) Deken, with whom she published
*Economische Liedjes* (1781), as well as several novels. Author of *Bespiegelingen
over het Genoegen* (1763) and*Onveranderlijke Santhorstsche Geloofsbelijdenis* (The
Unchangeable Santhorst Creed, 1772). Translated Robert Blair’s *The Grave* (1764)
and Charles-Auguste Frossard’s anonymous work on slavery (*De zaak der Negerslaaven*
[1790]). Biographical information: *Oxford Reference*. (DD)