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Marija Kumičić: a Croatian author and a cultural worker

The aim of the paper is to explore the life and work of Marija Kumičić (1863 – 1945), a Croatian literary author, journalist, translator, cultural worker and humanitarian. After finishing a two- year girls' college and marrying a Croatian writer and politician Eugen Kumičić (1850 – 1904), her own public, cultural and political work started. Her literary work comprises three collections of patriotic and sentimental poetry: Pjesme [Poems], 1903 ; Zadnje ruže [The Last Roses], 1913 and Pjesmom kroz život [Singing through Life], 1940, and prose works ([The Path to Authentic Happiness], 1909 and [The Waves of Emotions], 1911). She also wrote memoirs and a very popular cookbook for girls (Nova zagrebačka kuharica [New Zagreb's Cookbook], 1888) reprinted in several editions. Marija Kumičić was a prolific publicist (Žensko pitanje [Women's Issue], 1903 ; Književno cvijeće [The Flowers of Literature], 1929) and translator from German and French. She was also the initiator of the foundation of the Croatian Women Writers' Association (1936) and the founder of the Croatian Woman Society, a charitable women's organization established in Zagreb in 1921, active in the field of humanitarian, social and cultural and educational work. The Society ceased with its activities in 1943 and its archives were destroyed after the Second World War. This research – based on Marija Kumičić's private and official correspondence as well as other archival documents kept at the archives of the Division for the History of Croatian literature in Zagreb (Croatia) – will attempt to provide new data and supplement several of the previously published papers on her life and accomplishments. Hopefully, it will offer some yet undiscovered biographical insight and shed new light on the trace this versatile and courageous lady left in (Croatian) history in the last decades of the 19th and during the first half of the 20th century.

Marija Kumičić ; Croatian literature ; social, humanitarian, cultural and literary work ; archival documents, correspondence

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