Born in the Antwerp region, Marie Gevers never left the vast estate of Missembourg. Encouraged by Émile Verhaeren, she was also a friend of Max Elskamp who illustrated her first poem collection (“Missembourg”, 1917), and was the heiress to Belgian Naturalists and Symbolists through her novels anchored in Kempen threatened...
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