Vansova, Terezia (1857–1942)
Vansova, Terezia (1857–1942)
Slovak novelist and playwright. Name variations: Terézia Vansová. Born Terezia Medvecka, 1857, in Zvolenska Slatina, Slovakia; died 1942 in Banská Bystrica; married.
Edited 1st Slovak women's paper, Dennica (Morning Star, 1898–1907), wrote 1st novel by a Slovak woman, Sirota Podhradských (1889, The Podhradskys' Orphan), and organized the women's movement; also wrote Kliatba (Curse, 1927), and Sestry (Sisters, 1930), as well as verse and a travel book on Prague; translated Božena Němcová's novel Babička (1855).
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