Annie Foore

Annie Foore was the pen name of Francisca Johanna Jacoba Alberta IJzerman-Junius (March 26, 1847 – June 2, 1890). She was a Dutch-born writer who lived in Dutch East Indies.[1] She was considered one of the most important European women authors writing in the Dutch East Indies.[2]

The daughter of Franciscu Johannes Jacobus Albertus Junius and Anna Maria Titia Burhoven Viëtor,[3] she was born Francisca Johanna Jacoba Alberta Junius in Tiel. One of her sisters was the writer Johanna van Woude [nl]. She married Jan Willem IJzerman, an engineer, in 1873 and moved with him to Indonesia where he was employed in railway construction.[1]

She died in Padang at the age of 43.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Nieuwenhuys, Rob (1972). "Annie Foore". Oost-Indische spiegel (in Dutch).
  2. ^ van der Grijp, Paul (2009). Art and Exoticism: An Anthropology of the Yearning for Authenticity. p. 79. ISBN 978-3825816674.
  3. ^ "Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 5" (in Dutch).