Anna Susanna Hasselaer (1730-1788)

Biography

Anna Susanna Hasselaer. (1730-1788) (aka. Madame Amerongen)

Daughter of Gerard Aernoud Hasselaer and Elisabeth Clignet. Married (1751) to Gerard van Amerongen. Sister of Catherina Hasselaer.

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell was introduced to Madame Amerongen by her sister Catherina, Madame Geelvinck, on February 4, 1764. Boswell described her as "cold and backward, and seemed to dread strangers and designing foreigners on the Prize".

 

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Other biographies that refer to Anna Susanna Hasselaer:

van Amerongen, Gerard
van Amerongen, Joost

 

 

 

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