Pavlina Pajk

Pavlina Pajk

Pavlina Pajk, née Doljak (9 April 1854 – 1 June 1901) was an early Slovene poet, novelist, essay writer and biographer.[1]

Biography

Born in Pavia in the north of Italy, Pajk's parents were Slovenes. She first received an Italian education but after her parents had died, when she was 16 she moved to stay with her uncle in Solkan, Slovenia. She published her first collection of poems, Prva Ljibezen (First Love) in 1873. When she was 22, she married Janko Pajk, a Slovenian professor and editor, and moved first to Maribor then to Austria where she lived for the next 20 years. The couple finally moved to Ljubljana where she died in 1901.[1][2]

While her poetry was acclaimed by the critics, her prose works, which included six novels, were said to be less successful. In 1876, she also wrote an extensive obituary of George Sand, and went on to write other shorter obituaries. Pajk was the first Slovene author to support the case for women with an article in 1884, striving for the elementary schooling of women of all social classes.[1]

Works

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Pavlina Pajk, Slovenian author, 1854-1901". womenwriters.nl. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Pavlina Pajk, popularna avtorica pod udarom moških kritikov" (in Slovene). Delo. Retrieved 12 February 2015.