Agatha Deken was born in 1741. In 1745, after her parents died, she went to live in the 'Oranje Appel' orphanage in Amsterdam, where she remained until 1767. After leaving the orphanage she served in several families and later started a business in coffee and tea. In 1769 she joined the Baptist community in Amsterdam.
At the age of 29 she moved in with her friend Maria Bosch as a nurse. Maria Bosch died in 1773. In 1775, Deken published the collection of poems Stichtelijke gedichten, which she had written together with Maria Bosch.
1776 saw the beginning of a correspondence between Aagje Deken and Betje Wolff, who had already published several works by that time. In October of that year they met for the first time. After the death of Betje's husband, the two women lived together. In September 1777 they published their first joint work: Brieven ('Letters'). In 1781 Deken inherited a sum of 13,000 guilders, and they went to live in a mansion in Beverwijk. They published the successful novel Sara Burgerhart and Historie van den heer Willem Leevend.
Not quite at ease with the political situation in the Netherlands, when the Patriot faction lost power, they moved to Trëoux in Burgundy in 1788. In 1789 Wandelingen door Bourgogne ('Walks in Burgundy') appeared.
In financial straits, they returned to the Netherlands in 1797 and lived in The Hague. Aagje Deken died on 14 November 1804, nine days after Betje Wolff. Both were buried in Scheveningen.
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J. Kloek, De historie van de juffrouwen Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken, in brieven, Recensie over P.J. Buijnsters Bibliografie van Betje en Aagje [met Het grote en het kleine geld: honoraria van Wolff en Deken] In: De nieuwe taalgids Vol. 83 (1990), pp. 54-62
P.J. Buijnsters, Auto-reflectie op een Wolff en Deken-bibliografie In: Dokumentaal Vol. 16 (1987), pp. 78-82.
P.J. Buijnsters, Wolff en Deken. Een biografie (1984)
W. van den Berg, Sara Burgerhart en haar derde stem In: Documentatieblad Werkgroep Achttiende Eeuw 51-52 (1981), p. 151-207
P.J. Buijnsters, Bibliografie der geschriften van en over Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken (1979)
P.J. Buijnsters, Hella Haasse en Daisy Wolters, Schrijversprentenboek Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken (1979)
P.J. Buijnsters Sara Burgerhart en de ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse roman in de 18e eeuw (1971) (inaugurele rede)
H.C.M. Ghijssen, Dapper Vrouwenleven. Karakter- en levensbeeld van Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken (1954)
A. Loosjes, Het weeshuis der collegianten De Oranje-Appel (1925)
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