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Author: Swarth, Hélène

Pseudonyms:
Spouse/other names:Lapidoth-Swarth, Hélène
Gender:female
Year of birth:1859
Year of death:1941
About her personal situation:standardizingjdgjan14 Standardizing Origin • Place of birth : Amsterdam • Place(s) of residence: Brussels | Mechelen | Amsterdam • Place of death: Velp National identity • Nationality : Dutch • First languages : Dutch Marital status : - Married - Divorced Number of children : 0 Social class : - Not yet checked Education: - School education - Convent education Religion [/ideology]: - Not yet checked

Countries:Netherlands - Belgium/Southern Netherlands
Languages:Dutch - French
Relations to other authors:

About her professional situation:standardizingjdgjan14 Standardizing Authorial attribution: - Not yet checked Profession(s) and other activities : - Contributor to periodical press - Fiction writer/novelist - Poet - Translator from English - Translator from French - Literary critic Languages in which she wrote : - French - Dutch Collaboration/connections with male authors : - Max Waller - Pol de Mont - Frits Lapidoth - Hendrik Wolfgang van der Mey Financial aspects of this woman’s career: - Not yet checked Memberships - Other : Private library
Elements of bibliography:MENTIONED IN: - Romein, Vrouwenspiegel 1935, 35-9, 43 - Ter Laan 1941 (DBNL) - Komrij, Nederlandse poëzie, 1979 (7) - G.P.M. Knuvelder, Beknopt handboek tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandse letterkunde. 1982 (10th ed.), p. 331, 356, 360 - Van Bork en Verkruijsse 1985 (DBNL) - van den Berg/Couttenier 2009, 484, 494, 589-90, 636, 654 - Portrait gallery of Museum of Dutch literary history, as one of the 17 women out of the 115 writers born before 1900 (cf. born after 1900: 65 women, 219 men) (svddec10) - De Vries, Een stad vol lezers, 2011 - Vaessens, Geschiedenis van de moderne Nederlandse literatuur, 2013, p. 159 Cf. - Vandemeulebroucke, Karen. « Être femme poète en Belgique au 19e siècle. Entre exclusion et tolérance. » Femmes écrivains à la croisée des langues / Women Writers at the Crossroads of Languages, 1700-2000. Eds. Agnese Fidecaro, Henriette Partzsch, Suzan van Dijk, Valérie Cossy. Genève: MétisPresses, 2009. 173-92.
Websites: DBNL (portret)
Swarth (BWN)

Editors: Susanne Parren (update on 12 December 2009)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 01 February 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 07 November 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 07 November 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 16 December 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 05 February 2012)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 16 March 2012)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 16 March 2012)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 25 March 2012)
Janouk de Groot (update on 07 January 2014)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 28 January 2014)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 29 January 2014)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 13 April 2014)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 14 February 2015)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 11 March 2015)

Works written by this author

E 1 *Contributions to Lelie- en Rozeknoppen ()
E 2 *Hélène Swarth, the author ()
E 3 *Poems published in De Nieuwe Gids (1885)
E 4 Beelden en stemmen (1887)
E 5 Blanke duiven (1895)
E 6 Blauwe Bloemen (1884)
E 7 Diepe wateren (1897)
E 8 Drie sonnetten (Swarth) (1888)
E 9 Eenzame Bloemen: sonnetten, liederen, etsjes (1884)
E 10 Fanny's brief (1882)
E 11 Feuilles mortes ()
E 12 Fleurs du rêve. Poésies (1879)
E 13 Gedichten (Swarth) (1889)
E 14 Graaf Ruprecht (1889)
E 15 Het muschje (1882)
E 16 Het nachtegaaltje (1882)
E 17 Het zangstertje. Naar E. Manuel (1882)
E 18 Hoop (in Elsevier) (1891)
E 19 In Memoriam Jan van Beers (1888)
E 20 Kinderdroom (1882)
E 21 Kindersprookjes (1896)
E 22 Kleine schetsen (Swarth) (1893)
E 23 Les Printanières (1881)
E 24 Mozaiek: vertellingen voor jongens en meisjes (1889)
E 25 Najaarsstemmen (1898)
E 26 Nieuwe gedichten (1892)
E 27 Octobre en fleur (1919)
E 28 Passiebloemen (1891)
E 29 Poëzie (Swarth) (1892)
E 30 Practische menschen, Kloostertuin, Zomernacht (1888)
E 31 Profieltjes (1899)
E 32 Rouwviolen (1889)
E 33 Sneeuwvlokken (1888)
E 34 Sprookjes (1894)
E 35 Stille dalen (1898)
E 36 Tante Jeanne (1882)
E 37 Thea Lelie, Zonnejongen, Najaarsbloei, Olivia (1900)
E 38 Uit het meisjesleven : novellen (1890)
E 39 Van Vrouwenleed (1897)
E 40 Van Vrouwenleven (1896)
E 41 Van Vrouwenlot (1897)
E 42 Verzen (Swarth) (1893)

Authors read by this author

Xreception 1 Barrett, Elizabeth   -   Aurora Leigh
Xreception 2 Barrett, Elizabeth   -   Sonnets from the Portugese
Xreception 3 Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine de   -   La Princesse de Clèves
Xreception 4 Ramboux, Mathilda   -   Gedichten (Ramboux)
Xreception 5 Vacarescu, Elena   -   *The Bard of the Dimbovitza