The Confession
Marianne Philips was once a celebrated writer after whom an annual literary prize was named. Her recently republished work, 'The Confession', is a virtuoso naturalist novel about an ambitious woman with a fallible moral sense. After uprooting herself from her poor, religious family, she climbs her way up from the working class but never finds lasting happiness.
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Marianne Philips
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This confession of a nerve-wracked woman is incredibly fascinating because of the sincerity of tone, sharp insight into people, and the tension surrounding a crime kept secret for so long.
De Standaard
Philips proves herself to be an independent author with a very distinct style. […] She brilliantly denounces the menial role of women in the first half of the 20th century.
Noord Hollands Dagblad
Marianne Philips
Marianne Philips (1886–1951) was born into a prosperous Jewish middle-class family, which later fell into poverty. After the death of her parents, she had to care for her family at age fourteen. She got a good job in a diamond shop and joined the Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, where she became an outspoken activist for the working class. In 1919, she became one of the first female council members in the Netherlands.