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Flora Majthenyi (1837 - 1915)

Last edited by Judith_Rideout on Dec. 14, 2014, 8:46 p.m.
Short name Flora Majthenyi
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First name Flora
Birth name Majthenyi
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Date of birth 1837
Date of death 1915
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Sex Female
Place of birth Hungary
Place of death Budapest
Lived in Hungary , Spain
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Flora Majthenyi was ...
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Place(s) of Residence Hungary , Spain
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Flora 50 koltemenye / Flora's 50 poems (1858) 0 0
Flora dalai /Flora's songs (1860) 0 0
Jo gyermekek konyve /Book of good children (1862) 0 0
Elegiak kis fiamhoz /Elegies for my little son (1868) 0 0
Majthenyi Flora ujabb koltemenyei/ Flora Majthenyi's new poems (1877) 0 0

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Cf. - Fabri, Anna. 'A szep tiltott taj fele': A magyar ironok tortenete a ket szazadfordulo kozott (1795-1905) /Towards the beautiful forbidden land (1795-1905). Budapest: Kortars, 1996.

Daughter of an affluent aristocratic family in Upper-Hungary, she was closely related to prominent literary authors including Imre Madach. She travelled extensively in Europe in her childhood. She married Kalman Toth, the editor of the literary woman's magazine Holgyfutar/Ladies' Courier. Although divorced, she looked after him in his illness. Majthenyi moved to Spain in 1880, then on to Algiers and the Holy Land. She returned to Budapest in 1910, became mentally unstable and died alone in 1915. Author, poet and translator, traveller.
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- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992