Mijne kinderlijke traanen - Post, Elisabeth Maria 1755-1812 (Amsterdam Allart, 1792)
Elisabeth Maria Post was a Dutch poet and writer. She is considered one of the representatives of sentimentalism, a literary movement in pre-Romanticism (18th century) which involved an exaggeration of romantic feelings, manifested in a strong hypersensitivity, and the search for things that could evoke pity and tears.
Considerations upon the death of a mother, inspired by the death in 1792 of Posts mother.
Title page engraving with tomb and death-symbolism by D. Vrijdag after Isaac van 't Hoff (1763-?)
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Novel; Netherlands