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Anna Susanna Hasselaer - Madame Amerongen

Biography


Birth: 1730
Death: 1788

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

Also known as

  • Madame Amerongen

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".

Mentioned in

Anna Susanna Hasselaer is mentioned in:

  • Boswell in Holland 1763-1764

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