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Belcheva, Mara Ivanova (1868 - 1937)

Last edited by Alicia_Montoya on Dec. 14, 2024, 11:59 a.m.
Short name Belcheva, Mara Ivanova
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/46330993/
First name Mara
Birth name Ivanova
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Date of birth 1868
Date of death 1937
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Sex Female
Place of birth Sevlievo
Place of death Sofia
Lived in Bulgaria
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Religion / ideology Eastern Orthodox
Education Higher education
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Belchev, Hristo 1886-1891 Married
Belcheva, Mara Ivanova was ...
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На прага стъпки: стихове (Steps on the doorsill: poems) (1918) 0 0

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Unknown maker, portrait of Maria Belcheva, before 1938 None is portrait of

- Women & Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia (google books) - Milena Kirova, ed., Neslucheniat kanon. Bulgarski pisatelki ot Vuzrazhdaneto do Vtorata svetovna voina (Milena Kirova. The canon that did not happen. Bulgarian women writers from the Bulgarian national revival period to the WWII) (Sofia: Altera Publishing House, 2009), 430 pp. - Wikipedia

ak aug 2011

NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992

Vladimir Vasilev and Vasil Pundev completely deny any autonomy of her poetry

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Husband's money

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Comparisons to/mentions of male authors :
Pencho Slaveikov. Critics though that she is influenced by his work. She was always overshadowed by his figure

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