...entury letter-writing culture, and about the financial positions of Theo, Vincent and their parents.
...ell as a kitchen-maid (FR b2924); Theodorus and Anna had a maidservant and someone who came by to ten...
FR b980, Mrs Van Gogh to Theo, 7 June 1878.
...mily of Theodorus van Gogh (1822-1885) and Anna Carbentus (1819-1907) was an ordinary nineteenth-cent...
...Reformed Church. On 21 May 1851 he married Anna Carbentus, daughter of the Hague bookbinder Willem Ca...
... peaceful life in the parsonage in Zundert. Mrs Van Gogh, a kindly and simple woman, shared the care ...
...and have something different and new every week.’ (FR b2268, Mrs Van Gogh to Theo, 25 March 1885).
...68, Mrs Van Gogh to Theo, 25 March 1885). The parents clearly believed that they had to give all six...
.... cat. ’s-Hertogenbosch 1987, pp. 82, 84. Mrs Van Gogh visited the sick of the parish, and ran a se...
Although the parents wanted the very best for all their children, and were constantly warning them ab...
When the children left their parents’ house they were given the following prayer to guide them on t...
... his poems regularly appear in the letters. Mrs Van Gogh attached great importance to the value of th...
... named after his father, was the apple of his parents’ eye. Significantly, even at the age of 16 h...
FR b2630, 31 May 1873, Mrs Van Gogh to Theo, who was crowned remarkably often: ‘Always remain our j...
... (FR b2452, 31 December 1878). A remark of Mrs Van Gogh’s shows that this crown metaphor embraced ...
...had ‘that wonderful pleasure’ and did his parents credit, and he soon realized it. The first sig...
FR b2463, Mrs Van Gogh to Theo, 27 February 1879.
...children had to succeed in society, and their parents encouraged that in every way they could. The o...
...s 1990. Uncle Cent disapproved of the plan. Mrs Van Gogh wrote to Theo on 18 April 1877: ‘We havenâ...
...goes on within one is certainly not necessary,’ Mrs Van Gogh told Theo.FR b2803, 18 December 1876.
...cult task for the children not to cause their parents any sorrow. In 1877, for instance, there was a...
... the working class, much to the horror of his parents and Theo. The latter was the role model in the...
...amily were Theo, as the paterfamilias, and his mother. That also applied indirectly to Willemien, who...