Betje Wolff

Elizabeth ("Betje") Wolff-Bekker (24 July 1738 – 5 November 1804) was a Dutch novelist who, with Agatha "Aagje" Deken, wrote several popular epistolary novels such as Sara Burgerhart (1782) and Willem Levend (1784).

Betje Bekker was born into a wealthy Calvinist family at Vlissingen.

After her husband's death in 1777, she lived for a time with Aagje Deken in France.

[1] From then on the two women published their work together; it is somewhat difficult to determine the exact qualities contributed by each though many believe that Betje Wolff was the main author due to her wider acclaim before their pairing.

She was exposed to some of the dangers of the French Revolution, and, it is said, escaped the guillotine only by her great presence of mind.