Van Zuylekom was born on 29 July 1759 in Tedingerbroek (now known as
Den Haag),
Kingdom of the Netherlands. Her parents were Jan van Zuylekom and Agnita van Zuylekom (). Her mother giving birth to her younger sister Theodora Aletta when van Zuylekom was aged 2. Van Zuylebom was a member of the poetry society
Kunstliefde Spaart Geen Vlijt in Den Haag from 1788. van Zuylekom became the partner of
ensign infantry and writer
Jacob Eduard de Witte, who was serving a six-year sentence for treason. She allowed herself to be locked in prison with him every evening. In the prison, Van Zuylekom and de Witte wrote the
epistolary novel
Henriëtte van Grandpré (1789) together. Collaboration between two authors was fashionable in the Netherlands during the late eighteenth-century. and a son who enlisted as a
second lieutenant in the
Dutch military. Van Zuylekom requested residence in Alkmaar as a burgess which was granted by the Committee of General Welfare of the city on 8 May 1802. In 1813, van Zuylekom released two publications in
Amsterdam:
Lierzang aan mijne Landgenooten, in Slachtmaand 1813 and
Opwekking aan de Nederlanders, Lierzang. Van Zuylekom died on 7 April 1831 in Den Haag, aged 71. == Publications ==