She was born to Charles Bosch Reitz (1829–1879), a member of the Provincial Council of
North Holland, and Sara Maria de Balbiaan (1839–1920). Her parents were not married, so she stayed in Amsterdam and was raised by her mother. In 1881, Sara Maria married her brother-in-law, Dirk Anthonij Bosch Reitz (1820–1899). Dirk and Charles were uncles of the painter,
Gijs Bosch Reitz. After displaying artistic inclinations, she received sculpture lessons from
Georgine Schwartze and
Bart van Hove. Most of her works were small figures and
reliefs. In 1897, she was awarded the
Willink van Collenprijs. She had a studio on the , which had formerly been occupied by
Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof and . In 1898, she created one of her few large sculptures, depicting a female stone carrier, pushing a wheelbarrow; made specifically for display at the
Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid. In 2009, a replica of the statue was made by
Loek Bos and placed near the site of the old stone factory in
Nieuwerkerk. The original has been lost. She was a member of
Arti et Amicitiae and the . Throughout her twenties and early thirties, she held numerous exhibits, notably at the and the
Exposition Universelle (1900). She was awarded gold medals on four occasions. In 1902, she married the
heraldic scholar, Cornelis Willem Hendrik Verster (1862–1920); younger brother of the painter
Floris Verster, whom she had met at an exhibition in
Arnhem, when he was working as a
curator for the
Museum De Lakenhal and offered to help her set up her exhibitions. After her marriage, possibly due to a poor market for sculpture, she began to focus on writing and sculpted little. She published novels and series for magazines such as
Astra (a bimonthly magazine of the Youth Association for Astronomy) and
Nova (a news magazine). ==References==