Elisabeth Maria Post
Elisabeth Maria Post | |
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Engraved portrait by Reinier Vinkeles for the novel Reinhart (1791–1792), after a drawing by Isaac van 't Hoff | |
| Born | 22 November 1755 |
| Died | 3 July 1812 (aged 56) |
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| Genre | Sensibility |
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Justus Lodewijk Overdorp
(m. 1794) |
Elisabeth Maria Overdorp (née Post; 22 November 1755, Utrecht – 3 July 1812, Epe) was a Dutch poet and prose writer, and is esteemed the foremost female representative of sensibility in Dutch literature. She is also credited as the first Dutch woman writer to speak out against slavery.