Notes

1. Jane Fenoulhet (Oxford: Legenda, 2007).

2. See Jeroen Dewulf, ‘Over vogels zonder nesten. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur en de internationale neerlandistiek’, Internationale Neerlandistiek 48/3, October 2010, pp. 76-80. For a more general critique of methodological nationalism, see Rosi Braidotti, ‘Nomadism: against methodological nationalism’ in Journal of Policy Futures in Education 8/3 & 4, 2010, pp. 408-418.

3. Arie Pos, ‘Intercultureel vertalen. Een multiculturele kijk op de Nederlandse literatuur’ in Jane Fenoulhet & Jan Renkema (eds.), Internationale neerlandistiek: een vak in beweging, Lage Landen Studies 1, Gent: Academia Press, 2010, pp. 123-146.

4. It described itself as ‘A Library of Classics of Dutch and Flemish Literature’, published jointly in Leiden, London and New York by Sythoff, Heinemann and London House respectively during the 1960s.

5. Kristiaan Aercke et al, Women Writing in Dutch (New York/London: Garland, 1994).

6. Women’s writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: an Anthology, ed. by Lia van Gemert, Hermina Joldersma, Olga van Marion, Dieuwke van der Poel & Riet Schenkeveld-Van der Dussen ed. by (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010), p. 101.

7. Women’s writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875, ed. by Lia van Gemert et. al, p. 101.

8. Women’s writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875, ed. by Lia van Gemert et. al, p. 105.

9. Women’s writing from the Low Countries 1800-2010, ed. by Jacqueline Bel and Thomas Vaessens, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010), p. 13.

10. Berteke Waaldijk, ‘Reading Anne Frank as a Woman’ in Women’s Studies International Forum, 16/4, 1993, pp. 327-35.

11. Berteke Waaldijk, ‘Reading Anne Frank as a Woman’ in Women’s Studies International Forum, 16/4, 1993, p. 175.

Jane Fenoulhet teaches Dutch literature and culture with a particular focus on the twentieth century, as well as translation studies at University College London. She is particularly interested in women’s writing; her book Making the Personal Political. Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970 (2007) combines literary and cultural history. She publishes regularly on topics in language and literature pedagogy, and is currently researching a book on the Dutch novelist and travel writer Cees Nooteboom. She is currently a member of the Raad voor de Nederlandse Taal en Letteren.