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Marković, Danica (October 12, 1879. - July 9, 1932)

Last edited by Ksenija_Milinković on Aug. 31, 2025, 2:31 p.m.
Short name Marković, Danica
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First name Danica
Birth name Marković
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Alternative name Zvezdanka
Date of birth October 12, 1879.
Date of death July 9, 1932
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Sex Female
Place of birth Čačak
Place of death Belgrade
Lived in Serbia
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Unknown maker, portrait of Danica Marković, 1910s, The Public Library “Vladislav Petković Dis” Čačak
Mother Marković, Milena
Father Marković, Joksim
Children
Religion / ideology Eastern Orthodox
Education Faculty of Teacher Education (Vuša ženska škola)
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Tatić, Momčil 1904-1926 Divorced
Marković, Danica was ...
Profession(s) Teacher/governess (1897-1910)
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Place(s) of Residence Serbia
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Trenuci (1904) 0 0
Savremena ispovest (1913) 0 0
Trenuci i raspoloženja (1928) 0 0
Kupačica i zmija (1929? - 1932) 0 0
Elegije (1973) 0 0
Pesme o alhemijskom pokušaju (1989) 0 0
Istorija jednog osećanja. Sabrane pesme (2006) 0 0
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Circulations of Marković, Danica, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Marković, Danica, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
Trenuci. Danica Marković Moments. Danica Marković Matoš, Antun Gustav 1904 comments on person
Danica Marković. Trenuci Danica Marković. Moments Frutunić, Dimitrije 1904 comments on person
Danica Marković, Trenuci, Beograd, 1904 Danica Marković, Moments, Belgrade, 1904 Jovan Skerlić 1905 comments on person
Pesnikinje: Danica Markovićka-Tatićeva The Poetesses: Danica Marković - Tatić Magazinović, Marija Maga 1913 comments on person
Danica Marković - Tatićeva Danica Marković - Tatić Magazinović, Marija Maga 1913 comments on person
*o Danici Marković *about Danica Marković Jovan Skerlić 1921 comments on person
Danica Marković Danica Marković Živojinović, Velimir 1928 comments on person
Smrt Danice Marković Death of Danica Marković Bogdanović, Milan 1932 comments on person
Za dobar spomen Danice Marković For a Good Memory of Danica Marković Sekulić, Isidora 1932 comments on person
Hronologija Chronology 2003 comments on person
Da li postoji 'genološki pakt'?: o intimističkim žanrovima u prozi srpskih spisateljica početkom 20. veka Is There a 'Genetic Pact': About Intimate Genres in the Prose of Serbian Women Writers in the Early 20th Century 2003 comments on person
Elegije Danice Marković Elegies of Danica Marković 2003 comments on person
Demon u predsoblju: Danica Marković u kontekstu ženske književnosti Demon in the Anteroom: Danica Marković in the Context of Feminine Literature 2007 comments on person
Krst srpske orhideje The Cross of a Serbian Orchid 2007 comments on person
Problem samoće u lirici Danice Marković The Problem of Solitude in the Poetry of Danica Marković 2007 comments on person
*about Danica Markovic [MODERN/TO BE DELETED] Magdalena Koch 2007 comments on person
Danica Marković i razvoj srpske poezije na razmeđi vekova Danica Markovic and the Evolution of Serbian Poetry at the Turn of the Century 2007 comments on person
Elegija i pobuna u pesništvu Danice Marković Elegy and Rebellion in the Poetry of Danica Marković 2007 comments on person
Istorija jedne samoće The History of a Solitude 2007 comments on person
Između stvarnosti i mašte ili lirska autobiografija žene u pesništvu Danice Marković Between the Reality and the Imagination or the Lyrical Autobiography of a Woman in the Poetry of Danica Marković 2007 comments on person
Novi senzibilitet srpske moderne u ljubavnoj poeziji Danice Marković New Sensitivity of Serbian Modernism in Love Poetry of Danica Marković 2007 comments on person
O jednoj pesmi Danice Marković About a Poem by Danica Marković 2007 comments on person
Poezija Danice Marković između ženskog pisma i patrijarhalne tradicije Poetry by Danica Marković Between Feminine Writing and Patriarchal Tradition 2007 comments on person
Trenuci Danice Marković Moments by Danica Marković 2007 comments on person
Women Teachers in Serbia: Fiction and/as Life Stories of Women Teachers 2010 comments on person
Izvođenje novog teorijskog okvira za čitanje poezije Danice Marković u diskursima srpske istorije književnosti Performing a New Theoretical Framework for Poetry Reading of Danica Marković in Discourses of the Serbian History of Literature 2011 comments on person
„Nečiste žudi“, „minule cveti“ i„sklopljeni Verlen“: intimistički elementi poezije Danice Marković „Impure Desires“, „Passed Blossoms“ and „Closed Verlaine“: the Intimistic Elements of Danica Marković’s Poetry 2011 comments on person
"Rat je bio najviša škola moja, a nesumnjivo i opšta ": Prvi svetski rat u delu Danice Marković "The War was, for me and no doubt for everyone else, the highest form of education": the First World War in the Works of Danica Marković 2012 comments on person
Unknown maker, portrait of Danica Marković, 1910s, The Public Library “Vladislav Petković Dis” Čačak None is portrait of

MENTIONED IN: - Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske knjizevnosti [History of new Serbian Literature], Belgrade 1914. -Jovan Deretić, istorija srpske knjizevnosti [History of Serbian Literature], Belgrade 1983 (first edition), 2002 (second extended edition). - Predrag Palavestra, Istorija moderne srpske knjizevnosti. Zlatno doba 1892-1918 [History ofModern Serbian Literature. Golden Age 1892-1918], Belgrade 1986 (first edition), 1995 (second edition). cf. - Radomir Konstantinović, Danica Marković in: idem, Biće i jezik [Egzistence and language], Belgrade 1983. - Ljiljana Djurdjić, O alhemijskom pokusaju Danice Marković [About alchemical trial of Danica Marković] in: Danica Marković, Pesme o alhemijskom pokusaju [Poems about alchemical trial], Gornji Milanovac 1989. . - Celia Hawkesworth, Voices in the Shadows. Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia, CEU, Budapest 2000, p. 154-157. - Milivoj Nenin, Elegije Danice Marković [Elegies of Danica Marković] in: idem, Stvari koje su prosle. Ogledi o srpskim piscima XX (i XXI) veka [Things which passed away. Essays on Serbian writers of 20th (and 21st) century], Novi Sad 2003. - Magdalena Koch, ...kiedy dojrzejemy jako kultura...Twórczosć pisarek serbskich na poczatku XX wieku (kanon -genre- gender) [...when we mature as a culture...Early 20th century Serbian women's'writings (canon-genre-gender), Wroclaw 2007, p.217-239. - Trenuci Danice Marković. Zbornik radova [Moments of Danica Marković], urednik (editor) Slobodanka Peković, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Beograd [Belgrade] 2007.

Danica Marković was born on October 1st 1879, in Čačak, to Joksim, a teacher at the local elementary school, and Mileva. The family moved to Belgrade in 1880. After her father’s death in 1888, Danica continued her education and graduated from the Higher Women’s School in 1896 with distinction. She briefly enrolled in studies of Serbian language, literature, and history but was forced to abandon them due to financial difficulties.

From 1897 she worked as a teacher, first in Vračar, later in Palilula, Resnik, and other places, until she was retired in 1910. Her work was burdened by tuberculosis, which she contracted in 1898 and which marked her entire life.

In 1904 she married Momčilo Tatić, a wealthy lawyer from Bečej. The marriage produced six children, but only one daughter, Marica (1909–1977), survived into old age. The others died in childhood or shortly after her own death. The marriage was reportedly unhappy and ended in divorce in 1926, leaving her in great poverty.

Between 1913 and 1920 she lived in Prokuplje, where her husband was appointed district governor. As a witness of the 1917 Toplica Uprising, she wrote Impressions from the Revolt in Toplica. Because of her persistent efforts to help Serbian families, she clashed with the Bulgarian authorities, was imprisoned, and even sentenced to death. She was pardoned thanks to the intercession of Bulgarian poet Vazov, but she remained in Prokuplje until the end of the occupation. That same year she lost her son Slobodan.

After the divorce and the deaths of her daughters Milica and Ljubica, her life in Belgrade was marked by illness and poverty. Danica Marković died on July 9, 1932, at Dr. Antić’s clinic in Belgrade.

mk 15 Oct 2010