Lukhmanova, N.A. (1840–1907)
Lukhmanova, N.A. (1840–1907)
Russian playwright, essayist and short-story writer. Name variations: Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lukhmánova. Born 1840 in Russia; died 1907; widowed, 1873.
Traveled widely and lectured on travels, women's issues, and other popular topics; served as volunteer nurse during Russo-Japanese War; wrote children's fiction, adult fiction, short biographies of famous women, including Marie Bashkirtseff and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and educational tracts, including On the Position of Unmarried Daughters Within the Family (1896), On Happiness (1898) and A Woman's Guide (1898); also wrote the autobiographical novel Twenty Years Ago (From Life in an Institute) (1893).
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