Tine van Berken

Anna Christina Witmond-Berkhout (1870 – 1899) was a Dutch children's writer, best known under her pseudonym Tine van Berken. She also wrote adult books under the name Anna Koubert.

Life

Tine van Berken was born on September 29, 1870, in Amsterdam. Between 1894 and 1899, she wrote a large number of books for girls.

In 1899, she founded the journal Lente: Weekblad voor jonge dames [Spring: Young Ladies' Weekly Magazine]. She corresponded with Top Naeff about placing an article in Spring, and read Naeff's novel Schoolidyllen [School Idylls].^[1] However, she died from tuberculosis on December 7, 1899.^[2]

The Flemish magic realist writer Johan Daisne wrote a biography of her, Tine van Berken of de intelligentie der ziel [Tine van Berken, or the intelligence of the soul] (1962).

Works

As Tine van Berken

Een klaverblad van vier [A four-leaf clover], 1894
De familie Berewoud [The Berewoud family], 1895
Hans en Hanna [Hans and Hanna], 1896
Meidorens: drie verhalen, 1896
Mijn zusters en ik [My sisters and I], 1896
(tr.) Mooie Bruno, 1896. Translated from the English Beautiful Joe by Margaret Marshall Saunders.
Wilde wingerd: drie verhalen [Virginia creeper: three stories], 1896
De dochters van den generaal [The daughters of the general], 1897
Driftkopje: een verhaal, 1897
Kleine menschen: drie verhalen [Little people: three stories], 1897
Op kostschool en thuis [At boarding school and at home], 1897
Rietje's pop [Rietje's doll], 1897
Heintje Pochhans, 1898
Kibbelaarstertje, 1898
Lachebekje: een verhaal, 1898
Regen en zonneschijn: drie verhalen [Rain and sunshine: three stories], 1898
Kruidje-roer-me-niet, 1899
De berewoudjes [The mountain forests], 1900
Van een grootmoeder en zeven kleinkinderen [From a grandmother and seven grandchildren], 1900
Robbedoes, 1905
Rudi Willenborg, 1909
Hedwigs St. Nicolaasfeest [Hedwig's Saint Nicholas feast], 1914
Ons zonnetje: een verhaal [Our sunshine: a story], 1915