Titia van der Tuuk


Titia Klasina Elisabeth van der Tuuk, commonly known as Titia van der Tuuk, was a Dutch feminist and socialist. She was born in 't Zandt, Groningen to a preacher and a writer of children's literature. She initially worked as a teacher, but had to give up her profession due to deafness and hostility toward her because she was an avowed atheist. From 1885 onward, she started translating foreign literature into Dutch and writing children's literature and historic novels. She was passionate in her activism for atheism, teetotalism, vegetarianism and pacifism. She often used the pseudonym Vitalis. She was never married and lived openly with her female partner. She died in Zeist, age 84.

Publications

Lieve Aleida in: De Tolk van den Vooruitgang, Derde en Vierde Bundel, 1878, 262-265; De noodzakelijkheid van 't socialisme' in: De Tolk van den Vooruitgang, Vijfde en Zesde Bundel , 1879, 177-182; Bijdrage tot oplossing der sociale kwestiën ; Een betere toekomst ; Mensch of voorwerp? ; Het litteken van het dogma in: De Dageraad 1856-1906 232-236; De vrouw in haar seksueele leven. Een physiologisch-maatschappelijke studie met geneeskundige en hygiënische wenken ;