Reba Ray (1876 – 1957) was an Indian Odia poet educationist and administrator. Best known as one of the earliest Odia women writers, she was also founder of Model Girls' School, Cuttack. Her short story ''Sanyasi'' is considered earliest modern Odia short story by a woman writer. She was niece of renowned Odia poet

Madhusudan Rao Madhusudan Rao (19 January 1853 – 28 December 1912) was an Odia poet and writer from India. He was known as ''Bhaktakabi''. His most well known work is the ''Chhabila Madhu Barnabodha''. Life He was born on 19 January 1853 in the district o ...

Personal life

She was born on 1857. Many of her early life details are not known. She was married to well known writer Sadhu Charan Ray.

Career

She was one of the pioneers for women's education. She established Model Girls' School at Cuttack in 1906. It had provision for teaching music and sewing. She founded a woman's magazine ''Asha'' in 1892. She also founded Odisha's first children's magazine ''Prabhat''. Her stories were published in ''Utkal Sahitya'' magazine as well. She set up another school at Guhali, Jajpur.

Published works

* Anjali , 1903 * Shakuntala, 1904

References

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