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) andOnveranderlijke 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)
Poem title | Date | Periodical | Roles | id # |
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Where Would I Be? [From the German of B. Wolff] | 1845-06-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 5828 |