JOANNA DESIDERIA COURTMANS
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A Flemish poet and novelist (1811-90). Besides dramas and poems, she wrote 22 volumes of stories. She excels particularly in her descriptions of the life of the common people. The most notable of her tales are: "The Hunter's Gift"; "Dame Daneel"; "The Cowherd"; "Aunt Clara's Bonnet".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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