 Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (September 16, 1812April 13, 1886) was a Dutch novelist.Geertruida Toussaint was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands; her father, a pharmacist of Huguenot descent, gave her a fair education, and at an early period of her career she developed a taste for historical research, fostered by a forced indoor life as a result of weak health.