WAnne van Amstel is a Dutch writer.
WMaria Barnas is a Dutch writer, poet and artist.
WNelly Anna "Nel" Benschop was a Dutch poet. She was a best selling poet in the Netherlands.
WAnna Blaman, real name Johanna Petronella Vrugt, was a Dutch writer and poet. She was a recipient of the P. C. Hooft Award. The literary award Anna Blaman Prijs is named after her.
WMathilda (Til) Brugman was a Dutch author, poet and linguist.
WAndreas Burnier, born Catharina Irma Dessaur was a Dutch writer. Burnier has published poetry, lectures, books and articles, many of which address homosexuality, in order to emphasize women's problems in a male-dominated society.
WManja Croiset is a Dutch poet, writer and recitation artist.
WAgatha ("Aagje") Deken was a Dutch writer.
WAnna Enquist is the pen name of one of the more popular authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer. She is known for both her poetry and her novels.
WIda Gerhardt was a classicist and Dutch poet of a post-symbolist tradition.
WEva Gerlach is a Dutch poet. She also writes under the name Margaret Dijkstra.
WMargaretha van Godewijk, was a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter.
WMarijke Hanegraaf is a Dutch poet. Since 1997, she has lived in
WEstella Dorothea Salomea Hymans-Hertzveld was a Dutch Jewish poet and translator. Her poems, mainly on Biblical and historical themes, appeared regularly in several literary annuals.
WJudith Frieda Lina Herzberg is a Dutch poet and writer.
WRozalie Hirs is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet. Her poetry and music are lyrical as well as innovative. The principal concerns of her work are the adventure of listening, reading, and the imagination.
WCynthia Lenige, also known as Kynke Lenige, was a Frisian poet. She died young, and her body of work is limited mostly to occasional poetry, though she also wrote a few satirical poems which argued for a classical education.
WKatharyne Lescailje or Catharina Lescaille was a Dutch poet, translator and Publisher. Along with Catharina Questiers and Cornelia van der Veer she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th century.
WGertrude Maria Johanna Catharina "Gerry" van der Linden is a Dutch writer.
WHanny Michaelis was a Dutch poet.
WMischa de Vreede was a Dutch poet and writer. She won the 1959 Herman Gorterprijs.
WPetronella Moens was a blind Dutch writer, editor, and feminist. She managed a paper in 1788–1797, in which she spoke for political issues such as slavery and women suffrage.
WCharlotte Jacoba Maria Mutsaers is a Dutch painter, prose writer and essayist. She won the Constantijn Huygens Prize (2000) and the P. C. Hooft Award (2010) for her literary oeuvre.
WAugusta Guerdina Peaux was a Dutch poet. She began her publishing career as a writer of prose fiction, in literary magazines and in one collection, and in the early 1900s started publishing poetry, in magazines associated with the literary movement known as the Tachtigers, with whom she became associated. With her sister Johanna, she translated poetry by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne, and with her friend Truus, with whom she shared a love for Iceland and its literature, she translated stories from the Edda. Two volumes of her poetry were published; she never sought literary fame, though some fame came to her posthumously.
WEster Naomi Perquin is a Dutch poet.
WCatharina Questiers was a Dutch poet and dramatist. Along with Cornelia van der Veer and Katharyne Lescailje she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the 17th century. Her brother David also achieved some note as a poet.
WHenriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (1869–1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
WHannie Rouweler is a Dutch poet.
WAnna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt was a Dutch writer. She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song, and the queen of Dutch children's literature, praised for her "delicious Dutch idiom," and considered one of the greatest Dutch writers. An ultimate honour was extended to her posthumously, in 2007, when a group of Dutch historians compiled the "Canon of Dutch History" and included Schmidt, alongside national icons such as Vincent van Gogh and Anne Frank.
WAnna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar, who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in art, music, and literature, and became proficient in fourteen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Aramaic, and an Ethiopic language, as well as various contemporary European languages. She was also the first woman to study at a Dutch university.
WPem Sluijter was a Dutch poet.
WStéphanie Hélène Swarth (1859-1941) was a prolific Dutch poet active from 1879 to 1938. She is considered one of the Tachtigers and acquired a reputation as a sonneteer.
WM. Vasalis, pseudonym for Margaretha (Kiekie) Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist.
WAnne Vegter is a Dutch poet, playwright and writer of children's literature. She is the first woman to hold the position of Dichter des Vaderlands.
WAnna Roemers Visscher was a Dutch artist, poet, and translator.
WElly de Waard is a Dutch poet.
WMaria Petronella Woesthoven was a Dutch poet.