MOENS, Petronella. - Aardenburg of de onbekende volksplanting in Zuid-Amerika. Roman. Inleiding en bewerking door Ans Veltman-van den Bos en Jan de Vet.

Amsterdam, University Press, 2001. Wrappers. 137 pp. First published in 1817. - Petronella Moens (1762-1843), living in Aardenburg, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, was a blind poet, famous novelist, and feminist. In her work she showed great political and social commitment such as slavery and women suffrage. In her novel Aardenburg, or the unknown colony in South America, she created an utopic plantation society in which she could demonstrate her ideas on slavery. Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Met en zonder lauwerkrans, p. 742.

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