Augusta de Wit Boeken
Anna Augusta Henriette de Wit was een Nederlandse romanschrijfster. Haar bekendste werk is "Orpheus in de dessa". Haar schrijven richt zich op diepe psychologische portretten en onderzoekt de complexe relaties tussen mensen. Haar stijl is lyrisch en suggestief, waardoor lezers zich kunnen onderdompelen in de innerlijke werelden van haar personages.
When Augusta de Wit toured Java in the 1910s she found not only "the airy fancies, the legends and the dreams" but also "a busy manufacturing country, prosperous and prosaic." In fact she arrived during a crucial phase of the island's development, when the colonial Dutch regime had just embarked on its "Ethical Policy" not only to repay its "debt of honour" to an impoverished peasantry but also to facilitate the interests of modern capitalism. An illuminating record of her observations of both the Javanese aristocracy and peasantry, Java, through numerous illustrations, presents an important social document and a fascinating narrative account of a society in transition.