Marie Linde was the pen name of Elizabeth Johanna Bosman (1 May 1894 – 28 September 1963), a South African novelist of Afrikaner descent.

Initially home schooled, she studied modern languages at the University of Cape Town and was an accomplished linguist, able to speak Dutch, German, French and English.

[1] Due to poor health, she was initially home-schooled, absorbing the literary diversity of her home, and developing a keen eye for languages.

She eventually attended Good Hope Seminary High School, leaving in 1913 to read modern languages at the University of Cape Town.

[2] Initially a teacher of Dutch and Afrikans in Cape Town, she turned to writing full-time and published her first novel, Onder bevoorregte mense in 1925.