Antje Paarlberg
Antje Paarlberg née Waagmeester (16 February 1808 – 28 October 1885) is known as the inspiration for the novel "So Big". Chicago area author Edna Ferber used South Holland, Illinois, its pioneers and onion farms as background for her 1924 novel about an ambitious widow in a Midwestern Dutch American farming community. The resilience of Antje Wagemeester Paarlberg, a widowed immigrant and determined pioneer, was allegedly the inspiration for the main character Selina Peake DeJong.
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Antje Paarlberg
Antje Paarlberg née Waagmeester (16 February 1808 – 28 October 1885) is known as the inspiration for the novel "So Big". Chicago area author Edna Ferber used South Holland, Illinois, its pioneers and onion farms as background for her 1924 novel about an ambitious widow in a Midwestern Dutch American farming community. The resilience of Antje Wagemeester Paarlberg, a widowed immigrant and determined pioneer, was allegedly the inspiration for the main character Selina Peake DeJong.
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Antje Paarlberg née Waagmeeste ...... rg family's difficult journey.
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1808-02-16
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Antje Waagmeester
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Warmenhuizen, Netherlands
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circa 1870
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1885-10-28
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South Holland, Illinois, US
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Antje Paarlberg
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Klaas Paarlberg
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Antje Paarlberg née Waagmeeste ...... character Selina Peake DeJong.
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