Danica Marković
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Danica Marković (
Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, t ...
: Даница Марковић; 1 October 1879 – 9 July 1932) was the first modern Serbian woman
lyric poet Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...
. She was also important for her feminist writings. Her
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was Zvezdanka.


Biography

The fate of Danica Marković is unusual. After the acclaim which greeted her first volume of poetry, she was largely forgotten in the altered climate of cultural life following the
Great War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. Her personal experience was harsh: three of her six children died and she was left by her husband to bring up the other three on her own. Neglected for more than 40 years, now after communism, her life story and writings are becoming better known.Bio
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Great War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, she volunteered as a
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caring for the sick in military field hospitals along with her contemporaries.


Work

* ''Trenuci'' (1904) * ''Trenuci i raspoloženja'' (1928) * ''Elegije'' (reprint, 1973) * ''Pesme o alhemijskom pokušaju'' (reprint, 1989) * ''Kupačica i zmija'' (reprint, 2003) * ''Istorija jednog osećanja, sabrane pesme'' (reprint, 2006) * ''Savremena ispovest'' (1913)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Danica Markovic 1879 births 1932 deaths Writers from Čačak Serbian women poets 20th-century Serbian poets 20th-century Serbian women writers Feminist writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers Poets from the Kingdom of Serbia