Krásnohorská, Eliška (1847 - 1926)
| Short name | Krásnohorská, Eliška |
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| VIAF | 19722922 |
| First name | Eliška |
| Birth name | Krásnohorská |
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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 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Prague |
| Place of death | Prague |
| Lived in | Czech Republic , Bohemia (region) , Austro-Hungarian Empire |
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| Aristocratic title | - |
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Krásnohorská, Eliška was ...
| related to | Světlá, Karolina |
| related to | Orzeszkowa, Eliza |
| related to | Konopnicka, Maria |
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| Place(s) of Residence | Czech Republic , Bohemia (region) , Austro-Hungarian Empire |
Receptions of Krásnohorská, Eliška, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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.
ust oct 2010.
NOT MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992
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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).