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Lifetime: 1802 - 1868 Passed: ≈ 156 years ago

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Writer

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Jacob van Lennep

Books by Jacob van Lennep

lotgevallen van Ferdinand Huyck

Romance Adventure Mystery

Murder Love Mystery Adventure Romance Historical Fiction Pirates Revenge Jealousy Humor Netherlands Shipwreck Bandits Amsterdam

Een avonturenroman vol mysteries - met zeerovers, struikrovers, schipbreuken, moord en doodslag - afgunst, wraak en rampspoed afgewisseld door humor en liefde. Ferdinand Huyck, de zoon van de hoofdschout in Amsterdam, keert na een jarenlange reis te...

Roos van Dekama

Fiction History Novel

History Morality War Freedom Medieval Customs Conflict Human Nature Netherlands Character Holland Friezen

Roos van Dekama is a historical novel that tells the story of the Frisian struggle for independence against the Dutch in 1341. The story focuses on the character of Roos van Dekama, and her role in the conflict. The novel is set against the backdr...

Elizabeth Musch

Fiction History Biography

Marriage Love Religion Politics Biography Historical Fiction Women's History 17th Century Social History Dutch Republic

"Elizabeth Musch" by Jacob van Lennep is a historical novel that tells the story of Elizabeth Musch, the granddaughter of the famous Dutch poet Jacob Cats, and her husband, Henri de Fleury de Culan, the lord of Buat. The novel is set in the Netherlan...

Klaasje Zevenster, deel 1

Romance Fiction Drama Novel Children's Literature

Family 19th century Love Bildungsroman Moral Society Religious Netherlands Orphan Foundling Students Leiden Clergyman Sinterklaas Dominee

Klaasje Zevenster is a classic Dutch novel that follows the life of a foundling girl named Klaasje. The story begins in Leiden, Netherlands, in the 1820s, where a group of students discover a baby girl on their doorstep on Sinterklaas Eve. They decid...

Pleegzoon

Romance Fiction History Novel

Political Intrigue 17th Century Netherlands Love Story Religious conflict Dutch History Remonstrants Contra-Remonstrants Eighty Years' War House of Nassau Maurice of Nassau Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

Pleegzoon tells the story of a young woman and her foster brother amidst the tumultuous backdrop of the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. The novel explores the religious tensions between the Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants, which thr...