Jetske Reinou van der Malen
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Jetske Reinou van der Malen (bap. 23 October 1681 – 9 March 1752) was a Dutch poet.
Van der Malen was baptised on 23 October 1681 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands, however references works record her birth year as 1687.[1] Her father Michael van der Malen was a lawyer at the Court of Friesland, president of the Frisian-Nassau Military Court, and alderman of Leeuwarden from 1686 to 1689. After her fathers death in 1691, her mother Rixt van der Malen (née de Horn) remarried to Johannes Hemsterhuis, professor of medicine in Franeker, in 1694.[1][2]
Van der Malen published her first poem in print in 1709, a praise poem to Dutch prince and stadtholder Johan Wilhelm Friso of Orange-Nassau.[1][3] Following the Peace of Utrecht (1713), the treaty which ended the War of the Spanish Succession, van der Malen wrote in her poetry about the suffering caused by war and how this made her thankful for God's mercy.[4]
In 1728, van der Malen published her only collection of poetry, Zede-, Mengel- en Lykdichten.[3] In this work, she wrote a praise poem to Katharyne Lescailje,[3] who had died in 1711.
In Aurelia Zwartte's poem Stichtelijke Poëzij (1727), Zwartte referred to her contemporary and friend van der Malen as an "excellent poetess."[5][6] In 1810, Dutch literary historian Jeronimo de Vries [nl] described van der Malen's poetry as possessing "a firmness and liveliness that was not found among the best Poets of her time."[7][8]
Van der Malen died on 9 March 1752 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 van der Kloet, Jannie (13 January 2014). "Malen, Jetske Reinou van der (1681-1752)". Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ de Crane, J. W. (1827). Bijzonderheden, de familie Hemsterhuis betreffende (in Dutch). S. en J. Luchtmans. p. 11. ISBN 978-90-04-55592-1.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - 1 2 3 de Jeu, Annelies (1997). "'A room of her own' Jetske Reinou van der Malen (Leeuwarden, 1687 - Leeuwarden, 1752)". In Couttenier, Piet; van Gemert, Lia; Porteman, Karel; Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Riet (eds.). Met en zonder lauwerkrans. Schrijvende vrouwen uit de vroegmoderne tijd 1550-1850: van Anna Bijns tot Elise van Calcar (in Dutch). Amsterdam University Press. p. 492. ISBN 9053562680.
- ↑ Jensen, Lottie (2015). "Visions of Europe: Contrasts and Combinations of National and European Identities in Literary Representations of the Peace of Utrecht (1713)". In de Bruin, Renger E.; van der Haven, Cornelis; Jensen, Lotte; Onnekink, David (eds.). Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713. Brill. doi:10.1163/j.ctt1w76w4b.14. ISBN 978-90-04-30478-9. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ Basse, Maurits (1920). Het aandeel der vrouw in de Nederlandsche letterkunde (in Dutch). A. Hoste. p. 80.
- ↑ Dietz, Feike; Geerdink, Nina (1 August 2025). "Toneel kanten en liedjes weven: Handwerk en vrouwelijk schrijverschap in de vroegmoderne tijd". De Boekenwereld (in Dutch). 41 (2): 7. doi:10.5117/DBW2025.2.002.DIET. ISSN 0168-8391. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ de Vries, Jeronimo (1810). "Tweede afdeeling. Opgave der dichters dezer eeuw". Proeve eener geschiedenis der Nederduitsche dichtkunde (in Dutch). p. 108.
- ↑ van Dijk, Suzan (14 December 2018). "Jetske Reinou van der Malen(1687 - 1752) ♀". NEWW Women Writers (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
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