Top Naeff

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Top Naeff (1878-1953) was a Dutch writer. [1]

Life

Top Naeff, the only child of strict parents, did not excel at secondary school. She married a family doctor, but later fell passionately in love with the director and actor Willem Royaards. Royaards, also married, did not reciprocate in the way she wanted. [1]

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Naeff's first novel, School Idylls (1900), told the story of a teenage orphan, Jet van Marle, brought up by a loveless aunt and uncle. The novel was inspired by Louisa M. Alcott and Tine van Berken. In her first adult novel, At the Gate (1912), the protagonist Liesbeth van Landschot is frustrated by her violent passion for a man who is unaware of her feelings. [1]

Naeff reviewed plays widely for De Groene Amsterdammer . She succeeded her friend Herman Robbers as editor of Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift (Elsevier's Illustrated Monthly). [1]

Works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Vaartjes, Gé (2010). "Lack of Fulfilment and Irony: Top Naeff". In Bel, Jacqueline; Vaessens, Thomas (eds.). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010: An Anthology. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 49–. ISBN   978-90-8964-193-9.