Eliška Krásnohorská (1847 - 1926)

Short name Eliška Krásnohorská
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First name Eliška
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Alternative name F. Pěnková , Eda Maxová , Věra Langeová , Soliman Řetkvička , Růžena Volná , Eliška Věrná , Zdenka Drobná , Blažena Stará , Pražanka , Doubravka Malá , T. Dvorská , Arnoštka Č. , Klára Baldová , Vojtěška Všetečková , Navštěvovatelka divadla , Horská , Jezerská , Jan K. , Czech Mother , A. Temná , Alžběta Pechová , Barbora Míčková , Votress of Serious Art , František Špatný , Jeden žíznivý , Viola Tomanová , Klára F. , J. Zlonický , Vanda Hájková , Tetka z Tetína , Vlastenka
Date of birth 1847
Date of death 1926
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Place of birth Prague (CZE)
Place of death Prague (CZE)
Lived in Czech Republic , Bohemia (region, CZE) , Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Related to Maria Konopnicka , Karolina Světlá , Eliza Orzeszkowa
Bibliography MENTIONED IN: - Celebration of Women Writers - Libuše Heczková, "První léta časopisu Ženské Listy", in Dějiny žen, ed. by Kateřina Čadková - Moldanová, Dobrava, "České spisovatelky v 19. století" Slovník českých spisovatelů, Nakladatelství libri, Praha 2005, 372-373. - Slovník českých spisovatelů, Praha 1964, 255.
Provisional Notes ust oct 2010. NOT MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992 svddec10 Was the youngest of eight children. After her father´s death, when she was three years old, the family lived in difficult circumstances. Two of her brothers introduced her to the arts. As a girl she fell ill of rheumatism, which unabled her to have children. For a while she lived in her brother´s family in Plzn, a town with a lively cultural life at that time. In 1874 she moved to Prague, where she lived on her own and from her writing. Helped to found the first girl´s boarding school in Central Europe, the Minerva. (Moldanová). Editor of the journal "Ženské listy" (The Women´s Leaves). Wrote obituary on V. Lužiská (Heczkova). Also wrote librettos for Bedřich Smetana. Published poems and several travel notes. Translator from polish, translator from russian, translator from translator from english, translator from german: Mickiewicz, Puškin, Byron. Was also a literary critic. (Moldanová).
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Place(s) of Residence Czech Republic , Bohemia (region, CZE) , Austro-Hungarian Empire
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