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Nădejde, Sofia (1856 - 1946)

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Short name Nădejde, Sofia
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First name Sofia
Birth name Băncilă-Gheorghiu
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Alternative name Sofia Băncilă-Gheorghiu — Sofia Nadejde — Vanda D. — Sorina — Sonia — Eva — Elisabeta
Date of birth 1856
Date of death 1946
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Sex Female
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Place of death Bucharest
Lived in Romania
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Nădejde, Sofia was ...
related to Flechtenmacher, Maria
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MENTIONED IN:
- De Haan, Daskalova, Loutfi, p. 361-362
- Dicționarul literaturii române de la origini pînă la 1900, București: Ed. Academiei, 1979, p. 607-609
- Dicționarul general al literaturii române, București: Ed. Univers Enciclopedic, 2005, p. 541-542 AVRAM, Arina
– Femei celebre din România. Mică enciclopedie, volumul II, Prefaţă de Prof. Dr. Neagu Djuvara, Bucureşti, Editura Allfa, 2005 CIUPALĂ, Alin. Femeia în societatea românească a secolului al XIX-lea: Între public şi privat, Bucureşti, Editura Meridiane, 2003 Mihaila, Ramona. Constructia identitatii personajului feminin in proza secolului al XIX-lea, Bucuresti: Romania de Maine, 2008 MIHĂILESCU, Ştefania
– Emanciparea femeii române. Antologie de texte, vol. I - 1815-1918, Bucureşti, Editura Ecumenica, 2001 VIŞINESCU, Victor. Sofia Nădejde, Editura Politică, Bucureşti, 1972 NĂDEJDE, Sofia. Scrieri. Text ales şi stabilit, note, text cronologic, bibliografie generală de Victor Vişinescu, Iaşi, Editura Junimea, 1978 ZAHARIA-FILIPAŞ, Elena. Studii de literatură feminină, Editura Paideia, 2004

NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to Women's Literature 1992

Married to Ioan Nădejde (journalist). Sister of well known painter Octav Băncilă.

Born in Botoșani, lived in Botoșani and Bucharest.

Wrote on feminist issues, entography, socialist idealism

- In 1879, collaboration with Maria Flechtenmacher's journal, "Femeia Română" (her first article on women's rights)
- In 1894, director of an important journal, "Evenimentul Literar"
- In 1935, she publishes her memoirs in the newpaper ”Adevărul” (”Amintiri”) - naturalist prose writer (several short stories and novels)

Translator from English, French,Polish, Russian. (Charles Dickens, E. Zola, Jules Verne, P. Mérimée, E. de Amicis, H. Sienkiewicz, I. Turgenev, M. Gorki, N. A. Nekrasov). Also German and Italian.

Women's rights activist
Travel writer.

Information about translations from Ileana Mihaila.