Sofie Podlipská

Czech writer Sofie Podlipská

Sofie Podlipská (1833-1897[1]) was a Czech writer and the sister of Karolina Světlá. Sofie Podlipská mostly wrote historical novels, juvenile works, and feminist literature.[2] She also had an interest in Theosophy [3] and helped found the "American Ladies' Club." The name had no geographical meaning instead the word "American" was to designate it as modern and for progress.[4] Her work emphasized motherhood and morality.[5]

References

  1. C. Hawkesworth (10 April 2001). A History of Central European Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 54–55, 132–133. ISBN 978-0-333-98515-1.
  2. Šárka B. Hrbkova (1920). Czechoslovak Stories. Duffield. p. 41.
  3. Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (29 September 2010). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 350. ISBN 978-90-272-8786-1.
  4. Radio Prague
  5. Sylvia Paletschek (14 November 2005). Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective. Stanford University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-8047-6707-1.
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