Description
How did a penniless nineteenth-century farm woman with an alcoholic husband, seven children, and little education, living in a rural backwater of the tsarist Russian empire far from any centers of culture manage to become the initiator of literary prose fiction in the Lithuanian language and write six volumes of stories, plays, and letters? Not only that, but she also distinguished herself as a feminist activist against patriarchy, especially the centuries-long tradition of arranged marriages. During the First World War she traveled the United States for five years, giving speeches from Chicago to New Hampshire for the cause of relieving the famine and suffering of her war-torn country.
Author: Violeta Kelertas, Zemaite
Publisher: Birchwood Press
Published: 02/01/2020
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780996515375
ISBN10: 0996515372
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | European | Eastern (see also Russian & Soviet)
- Literary Collections | Women Authors
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