In 1920, she married the art historian Adriaan Pit, who was more than twenty years her senior.

[2] This was a happier marriage but, after 1928, she frequently had depression and spent time in psychiatric hospitals.

Similarly, she had an uneasy relationship with the literary establishment, developing her own writing style and stepping outside of prevailing literary traditions; however her quality already 1928 recognized by the important younger critic Menno Ter Braak.

[3] Van Bruggen died in Laren at the age of 51 from an overdose of sleeping pills.

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