"I have heard about you"

Suzan van Dijk, Petra Broomans, Janet F. van der Meulen and Pim van Oostrum (eds.),
"I have heard about you". Foreign women’s writing crossing the Dutch border: from Sappho to Selma Lagerlöf.
Hilversum: Verloren, 2004, 342 p.

ISBN 978 90 65 50752 5

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Suzan van Dijk:

• Foreword: Foreign women's writing as read in the Netherlands. A task for historiographers
  
  

Marianne Peereboom :

• Sappho: mother of all women poets
  
  
  

I. Creating the first networks

Wybren Scheepsma:

• Mystical networks in the Middle Ages? On the first women writers in Dutch and their literary contacts
  
  

Janet van der Meulen:

• "Sche sente the copie to her doughter". Countess Jeanne de Valois and literature at the court of Hainault-Holland
  
  

Anne-Marie de Gendt :

• "In future times more than during your lifetime": The reception of Christine de Pizan in the Low Countries
  
  

Johan Oosterman:

• Women´s albums: mirrors of international lyrical poetry
  
  

Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen:

• Georgette de Montenay and her Dutch admirer, Anna Roemers Visscher
  
  

Mirjam de Baar:

• "God has chosen you to be a crown of glory for all women!" The international network of learned women surrounding Anna Maria van Schurman
  
  

Mirjam de Baar:

• Prophetess of God and prolific writer. Antoinette Bourignon and the reception of her writings
  
  
  

II. Finding international audiences

Pim van Oostrum:

• Dutch interest in 17th- and 18th-century French tragedies written by women
  
  

Alicia C. Montoya:

• Republican overtones: Marie-Anne Barbier's tragedies translated, 1728-1774
  
  

Alicia C. Montoya:

• French and English women writers in Dutch library (auction) catalogues, 1700-1800. Some methodological considerations and preliminary results
  
  

Finny Bottinga:

• Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator and its Dutch translation De Engelsche Spectatrice
  
  

Suzan van Dijk:

• A Dutch cultural magazine judging foreign women writers: the Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1761-1800
  
  

Petra Broomans:

• Mary Wollstonecraft in Scandinavia; her letters in the Netherlands
  
  

Anna Hausdorf :

• The reception of 19th-century German women novelists and the influence on their Dutch counterparts
  
  

Gabrielle Martel Cothereau & Suzan van Dijk:

• George Sand and Dutch theatre censorship
  
  

Irene Visser:

• American women writers in the Dutch literary world 1824-1900
  
  

Henriette Ritter:

• The critic Conrad Busken Huet on Madame de Staël's novels: Between antifeminism and androgyny
  
  

Petra Broomans:

• "The splendid literature of the North". Women translators and intermediaries of Scandinavian women writers around 1900
  
  

Lizet Duyvendak & Diederik Grit:

• Margaretha Meyboom: not only a translator
  
  
  

AsK, September 2010

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