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100 1 _aSlooten, Augusta van
245 1 0 _aMieke
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-07
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg
520 _a"Mieke" by Augusta van Slooten is a novel for young readers written in the early 20th century. Set in a Dutch village, it follows the conscientious schoolgirl Mieke as her life is upended by her grandmother’s sudden illness and bereavement, leaving her future uncertain. Between a warm, capable neighbor and distant, status-conscious city relatives, the story explores duty, kindness, and class contrasts as Mieke faces decisions about schooling and where she will live. The opening of the novel depicts a bleak, rainy season that mirrors the neglect settling over Mieke’s cottage as her grandmother grows acutely ill. Mieke struggles to keep house and attend her normal school until the practical, generous neighbor juffrouw Wije intervenes, summons the doctor, and steadies the panicked girl; despite care, the grandmother dies within days. At the funeral, social frictions surface: the level-headed boerin counters the officious doctor’s wife, and Mieke’s urbane uncle and cousin treat the prosperous young farmer Geert with thinly veiled condescension. The uncle pledges to act as a “second father,” while the neighbor offers Mieke immediate shelter. Soon a letter arrives from Amsterdam proposing that Mieke move in with her uncle’s family, contribute a small board from her inheritance, and help with the household—news that leaves her anxious but on the threshold of a new chapter. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUtrecht: A.W. Bruna & Zoon's Uitg. Mij., 1919
653 _aChildren's stories, Dutch
700 1 _aWiegmans, Willem
_q(Willem Leendert),
_d1892-1942
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77190
999 _c117911
_d117911