| Bibliography |
Mentioned in:
- List Celebration of Women Writers
- Heczková. ust feb 2011.
Bibliography:
- Libuše Heczková, Píšící Minervy, Vybrané kapitoly z dějin české literární kritiky, Praha: Filozofická fakulta University Karlovy, 2009.
- Jan Lehár, Alexandr Stich, Jaroslava Janáčková, Česká literatura od počátků do dnešku, Praha: Nakladatelství lidové noviny, 2008.
- Eva Strohsová, Zrození moderny. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1963. |
| Provisional Notes |
ust feb 2011
Cf. contribution Ljubljana Alenka Jensterle-Doležal svdjul10
NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992
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Anna Řeháková (1850–1937) was the first female student to graduate from St. Anne’s teacher’s college in Prague. She managed to live an independent life of the female intellectual of that time: first taught at the girls’ school in Čáslav, and from 1874 onwards in Prague. In her spare time she traveled in different parts of the world which was very brave and unusefull in that patriarchal time.
Published several prose works in the journal Ženské Listy (The Women´s Journal), edited by Eliška Krásnohorská. See Heczková. ust Feb. 2011. Her newspaper travel features on Slovenia, Dalmatia, Italy, and the Austrian Alps are well known. She also combined these with other genres, so that her travelogues, which contained historical and ethnological components, range between documents, diaries, and fiction. During her lifetime, her best-known work was a biographic study of one of the best Czech actresses, Otýlie Sklenářová-Malá (1844–1914 ). Řeháková was also a very productive writer, who published twenty-nine works including short prose, novels, memoirs, children’s stories, and several translations. She worked with a number of magazines, especially women’s magazines. Her literary quality is diminished by her moralization and sentimental, national-awakening style (especially in her last years). She was also out of the main literal movement as Czech “Moderna”, which was raising in its peak in the middle of 90th, presenting the inner, intimae life of the individual in the focus of the writers interest and with lyrical style of the prose. Her style was old fashioned, belonging to Czech realism. She was a fervent member of the Czech feminist movement, which was already well developed at that time (the first women’s newspaper, Lada, was published as early as 1861). Řeháková worked to educate and raise women’s awareness, and was a member of the “The American club of Ladies” and “Minerva Women’s Studies Society”. Its main newsletter Ženské listy (Women’s Letters) was edited by her writer friend the poet Eliška Krásnohorská (born Alžběta Pechová, 1847-1926), who also encouraged her to write. author of travel writing |