Betje Wolff

Writer, born in Vlissingen, SW Netherlands. She married Adriaan Wolff, more than 30 years her senior, in 1759. She produced her first poetry in 1763 and contributed to a spectatorial magazine. Shortly after the death of her husband in 1777, her lady friend Aagje Deken moved in with her, and together they published several novels and articles, of which the epistolary novel Sara Burgerhart is the best-known. After a terminal illness, Wolff died in 1804, and her friend Deken died less than 10 days later.

Elizabeth ("Betje") Wolff-Bekker (Flushing, 24 July 1738 - The Hague, 5 November 1804) was a Dutch writer.

On 18 November 1759 she married the 52-year-old clergyman Adriaan Wolff. In 1777, after her husband's death, she lived together with Aagje Deken and from then on they published their work together. Among their greatest successes were the epistolary novels Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (1782) and Historie van den heer Willem Leevend (1784-1785).

Because of their patriotic sympathies they moved to Trévoux in Burgundy in 1788.

Other popular books by Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken were Abraham Blankaart (1787) and Cornelie Wildschut (1793-1796).