| Bibliography |
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) |
| Provisional Notes |
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. |