I decided that if I learn Dutch, maybe I can read some of Cissy's books!
"Cissy van Marxveldt (Author of Een zomerzotheid)"
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2963353.Cissy_van_Marxveldt
"Van Marxvelt's Joop ter Heul novels had a notable influence on the writings of Anne Frank, who addressed her diary letters to an imaginary friend named Kitty. Anne Frank scholars, as well as Anne's friend Kitty Egyedi, are united in their belief that Frank's Kitty was based on a character created by Van Marxveldt: Kitty Francken, a friend of Joop's and a frequent recipient of her letters.
Van Marxveldt also wrote many other young-adult books, of which Een zomerzotheid ('A Summer Folly') was a particular best-seller, which made her affluent.
In 1914, she met Leo Beek, who was a department store manager as well as a reserve infantry officer. De Haan and Beek married on 2 February 1916 and had two sons, Leo and IJnze. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Beek was a resistance fighter. He was arrested and later executed in the Westerbork transit camp in 1944, though it was 1946 before De Haan learned of his fate. She dedicated her last book 'She Suffered Too' to him. She died in Bussum on 31 October 1948, aged 58."
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