from october 2001 – april 2002 an exhibition about elisabeth couperus-baud was held in and organized by the louis couperus museum. special attention was paid to couperus-bauds marriage with a suspected gay husband and her way of dealing with this. in 2007 a novel, written by sophie zijlstra, called "mevrouw couperus", was published. dutch writer gerard reve wrote about her: "she had to endure quite a lot" (in a lecture he held called "het geheim van louis couperus" (the secret of louis couperus)) and frédéric bastet, biographer of couperus, said: "zij kwam veel tekort" (she could not live life to the fullest).