ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role played by women writers in the Netherlands between the wars in raising awareness of women's unhappiness with the status quo. It discusses that the collective voice which can be discerned from these women's writings must have made it uncomfortably clear to society at large that an apparent advance such as gaining the vote in 1919. The chapter seeks to go beyond the purely cultural aspect of Dutch history to suggest that the cultural may well have had an impact on society. It seeks to counter the assumption that one of the reasons the collective voice no longer echoes in historical accounts of the period is that it did not play a significant role. The chapter explores the area by giving an insight into the process of exclusion, partly to gain an understanding of the dynamics of the literary marketplace in the Netherlands at the time.
