Pavlina Pajk (1854 - 1901)

Short name Pavlina Pajk
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First name Pavlina
Birth name Pajk
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Date of birth 1854
Date of death 1901
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Sex Female
Place of birth Pavia (Lombardia)
Place of death Ljubljana (SVN)
Lived in Slovenia
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Religion / ideology Catholic
Education Convent education
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Pavlina Pajk was ...
related to Janko Pajk
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Place(s) of Residence Slovenia
Receptions of Pavlina Pajk, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
Literarno pismo A literary letter Ivan Cankar 1900 mentions person
*Remark in private letter Zofka Kveder 1926 comments on person
MENTIONED IN: - De Haan a.o., A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. CEU press, 2006. - Borovnik 1995 Cf. - Katja Mihurko, "Nation and Gender in the Writings of Slovene Women Writers, 1848-1918", in Aspasia 2, 2008, 28-43. (cf. hyperlink)
KM NOT MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992. PUT HERE: birth 09-04-1854, died 01-06-1901 ABOVE ONLY THE YEARS - PLEASE CONSIDER OTHER AUTHORS (FRENCH, ENGLISH) AS EXAMPLES. THANKS! She was born in Pavia (Italy) and learned Slovene after the death of her father. She moved with her brother and sisters to her uncle Matija Doljak (Solkan, Slovenia), who was one of the iniatiors of Slovene national movement in the Gorizia region. In the year 1876 she married the writer and publisher Janko Pajk. She followed him to Maribor, Graz, Brno and Vienna. She had two sons. She died of pneumonia at the age of 47 in Ljubljana. Pavlina Pajk published her first short novel Prva ljubezen (First love, 1872) in the Slovene gazette Soča anonymously. In her prose works she turned towards romantic idealism. She published poems, women novels, autobiographical prose (Odlomki iz ženskega dnevnika, Excerpts from a woman's diary, 1876) and an article about George Sand (1877). Although she published numerous literary works she never won recognition in literary circles.