Anna Angyal (; 1848–1874) was a

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author. She also served as a governess.

Biography

Born in Veszprim in 1848, she attended the Jewish community school of her birthplace, and later that in the town of

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, where her father was a teacher. Versed in Hungarian,

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, and

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, Angyal began her literary career at the age of sixteen. Her first

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, ''Egy magyar család kalandjai'' ('Adventures of a Hungarian Family'), was published in the Hungarian magazine ''Szegedi Hiradó''. In 1865 she published in the ''Magyar Izsráelita'' a short novel entitled ''Előítéletek'' ('Prejudices'), in which she described the condition of the Jews in Hungary. Her

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, ''Ilonka és Elemér'', was published in 1868. After the completion of this novel, she accepted a position as

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, where she wrote several poems and an

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. She died after succumbing to an illness in the autumn of 1874.

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* 1848 births 1874 deaths Writers from Austria-Hungary Jewish Hungarian-language writers Jews from Austria-Hungary People from Veszprém Jewish poets 19th-century Hungarian women writers 19th-century Hungarian Jews Hungarian women novelists Hungarian women poets Jewish women writers Governesses {{Hungary-writer-stub