Iulia Hasdeu (1869-1888)
Poet. Musician. First Romanian woman to study at Sorbonne.
Tag: ROMANIA
Elena Ghica alias Dora d’Istria (1828-1888)
Writer, painter, historian, feminist. She translated from Greek to German at 14 years old The Illiad of Homer. She married Russian prince Alexander Kolotov Massalski and lived in Saint Petersburg during the Crimea War. She publicly sympathized with France and UK and was detained and
Matilda Cugler-Poni (1851-1932)
Poet and novelist. She published her first poems in the well-known cultural magazine, Convorbiri literare, in 1867. Her debut poetry volum was published in 1874.
Stéphanie Alice Călugăru-Stănescu (1886-1933)
Poet. She published a volum of poetry entitled Viorele in 1905. After marrying the journlist L.C. E. Muller, she moved to France. She travelled to USA and Europe and she described her travels in her novel, La tunique verte published in 1924.
Ana Elisabeta Brâncoveanu, Countess Anna de Noailles (1876-1933)
Poet, writer, activist of human rights and women rights. She organized a literary salon in Paris where she received André Gide, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Paul Claudel, Marcel Proust as well as Eduard of Walles, future king Eduard VII. She published poems Litanies (1889),
Martha Bibescu (1889-1973)
Writer. Studied in Paris. Travelled around the world. The depiction of her travels to Persia and Egypt were published in Les huits paradis (1908). After 1945 she went into exile in Paris. She published 40 books among them: the novel, Papagalul verde (1924), a biography
Maria Băiulescu (1860-1941)
Feminist activist and writer. Published: Note si impresiuni (1896), Vacantii (1903), Extaz (1908). Translated from Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller etc.
Lia Manoliu (1932-1998)
She was born in Chisinau on April 25, 1932. At the age of 16, she began to deal with sports, namely throwing the disc. In 1952 she participates in her first Olympics – the one in Helsinki. Neither at this Olympics nor at Melbourne (1956)