Joop ter Heul is a
fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...
al character in a series of five books written for teenage girls by
Dutch novelist
Setske de Haan
Sietske de Haan (24 November 1889 – 31 October 1948), better known by her pen name Cissy van Marxveldt, was a Dutch writer of children's books. She is best known for her series of '' Joop ter Heul'' novels.
Biography
Sietske de Haan was born ...
(1889-1948), who wrote under the pen name
Cissy van Marxveldt. Joop is high-spirited, headstrong, and stubborn. The first four books, published from 1918 to 1925, deal with her high school years, her young adulthood, her marriage, and her sons. The last book was not written until more than twenty years later. The initial four books are remembered today for being a strong influence on diarist
Anne Frank, both in the character of Joop, whom she identified with, and in the epistolary style in which the books were written, which she adapted for her own diary.
FILM
In 1968 ''Joop ter Heul'' was the title of a film in the Netherlands based on the Marxveldt character.
See also
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Cissy van Marxveldt
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Anne Frank
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The Diary of a Young Girl from entry dated Wednesday, October 14, 1942
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People associated with Anne Frank
External links
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Characters in children's literature
Fictional Dutch people
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