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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".

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  • Boswell in Holland 1763-1764
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