Neel Doff(1858-1942)
- Writer
Neel Doff is the author of several autobiographical based books, her
most famous one being 'Days of Hunger and Distress'. A full
bibliography can be found in "Neel Doff 1858-1942 - A Biography" by
Évelyne Wilwerth and translated by Renée Linkhorn. Neel Doff climbed
her way out from underneath a crushing poverty and elevated herself to
become a socialite in the highest artistic and political circles of
late 19th early 20th century Belgium. In her stately home in Antwerp,
while battling a bad cold, at age 52, she grabbed paper and poured her
sorrow down on them until she ran out of tales to tell. Just for the
moment. This was her first book, which was written in French, her
adoptive language. Neel Doff, She married Georges Serigiers, a
prominent lawyer and social activist on 4 May 1901.
