Constanța Marino-Moscu (17 April 1875–20 September 1940) was a

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n short story writer. Born in

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Neamț County Neamț County () is a county ( județ) of Romania, in the historic region of Moldavia, with the county seat at Piatra Neamț. The county takes its name from the Neamț River. Demographics Population In 2011, it had a population of 470,766 ...

, her father was the farmer Panait Marino and his wife Ana (''née'' Popovici). After attending primary school in

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and high school level classes at the Dodun de Perires boarding school in

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, she studied piano in Paris, Vienna and Berlin. She married Gheorghe Moscu, a magistrate. Her published debut was the short story "Natalița", which appeared in ''

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'' in 1908. Her first book was the short story collection ''Ada Lazu'' (1911). Magazines that published her work include ''Viața Românească'', ''

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'', ''Adevărul literar și artistic'' and ''Lectura pentru toți''. She wrote two other story collections (''Tulburarea'', 1923; ''Făclii în noapte'', 1930), and memoir essays in ''Viața Românească'' ("Amintirile Caterinei State") and ''Adevărul literar și artistic'' ("Din zilele şi gândurile mele").Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 575-76. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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1875 births 1940 deaths People from Neamț County Romanian women short story writers Romanian short story writers Romanian memoirists Romanian women memoirists {{Romania-writer-stub