Joop ter Heul is a
fiction
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al character in a series of five books written for teenage girls by
Dutch
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novelist
Setske de Haan (1889-1948), who wrote under the pen name
Cissy van Marxveldt. Joop is high-spirited, headstrong, and stubborn. The first four books, published from 1918 to 1925, deal with her high school years, her young adulthood, her marriage, and her sons. The last book was not written until more than twenty years later. The initial four books are remembered today for being a strong influence on diarist
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new li ...
, both in the character of Joop, whom she identified with and in the epistolary style in which the books were written, which she adapted for her diary.
FILM
In 1968 ''Joop ter Heul'' was the title of a film in the Netherlands based on the Marxveldt character.
See also
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Cissy van Marxveldt
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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new li ...
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The Diary of a Young Girl
''The Diary of a Young Girl'', commonly referred to as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a book of the writings from the Dutch language, Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Neth ...
from entry dated Wednesday, October 14, 1942
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People associated with Anne Frank
Anne Frank (12 June 1929 – February 1945) was a German-born Jews, Jewish girl who, along with her family and four other people, hid in the second and third floor rooms at the back of her father's Amsterdam company during the The Netherlands i ...
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Characters in children's literature
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