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Annual report of Splošno žensko društvo, 1910

written by General Slovene Women’s Society (Zgodovinski arhiv Ljubljana. ZAL, LJU 285) (1910) , 10 page(s)

TITLE: Annual Report of Splošno žensko društvo, 1913. DESCRIPTION: The document is the annual report of Splošnoslovenskoženskodruštvo (General Slovene Women’s Society), the most important association of Slovene-speaking women in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Empire, for the year 1913. The report inform...

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Annual report of Splošno žensko društvo, 1918

written by General Slovene Women’s Society (Zgodovinski arhiv Ljubljana. ZAL, LJU 285) (1918) , 13 page(s)

TITLE: A Lecture on Women's Emancipation in Russia in the Beginning of 1902. DESCRIPTION: The text by an anonymous author, a Slovene woman living in Russia, provides information about the progress of women’s emancipation in Russia in the beginning of 1902. After starting with the reference about the debate over...

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Brief an Elsa Grailich, 2. Juli 1908

written by Auguste Fickert, 1855-1910 (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus [Vienna City Library], Handschriftensammlung [Manuscript Department] IN 70453/7) (02 July 1908) , 1 page(s)

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Title: Letter to Elsa Grailich, 2 July 1908. Description: The writer of the letter is Auguste Fickert (1855–1910). She was a school teacher in Vienna and an active member of the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian Women's Association], one of the rather radical organisations of the Austrian bourgeois women's movements in terms of their political demands. The Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian W... Title: Letter to Elsa Grailich, 2 July 1908. Description: The writer of the letter is Auguste Fickert (1855–1910). She was a school teacher in Vienna and an active member of the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian Women's Association], one of the rather radical organisations of the Austrian bourgeois women's movements in terms of their political demands. The Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein [General Austrian Women's Association] committed to women's labor and employment and campaigned for improvements of proletarian women's lives. Fickert cooperated with proletarian organizations in campaigns and was active in the women's suffrage movement. Her first public political act was to organize a petition against the disfranchisement of women voters in government elections in Lower Austria. In 1899, she co-founded the journal of the General Austrian Women's Association, Dokumente der Frauen [Documents of Women], which is available full-text online through the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek’s AustriaN Newspapers Online (ANNO) [See: http://anno.onb.ac.at/]. The letter was addressed to Elsa Grailich (1880–1969). Grailich was a journalist and poet in Pressburg (Pozsony, Bratislava, in the Hungarian Kingdom, today Slovakia). She was active in the social-democratic movement and was engaged for better education and women's rights. In the Handschriftensammlung [Manuscript Department] of the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus [Vienna City Library], there are only the letters from Fickert to Grailich available. The answer letters from Grailich to Fickert are not part of the collection. In the letter from 2 July 1908, Fickert raises the attention of Grailich to an upcoming congress in London. In April 1909, the congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) took place in London. Fickert mentions that she would like to go, but she indicates that her financial situation would not allow to travel to the congress. Fickert asks Grailich, whether she would contribute to a questionnaire on education. This letter is one of several from Fickert to Grailich included in this digital archive. Keywords: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Empire and Internationalism; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Habsburg Empire; Austria Show more Show less

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Catalog für die Ausstellung österr. Frauen-Arbeiten. Welt-Ausstellung 1873 in Wien

(Austrian National Library); edited by Aglaia von Enderes, 1836-1883 (Vienna, Vienna State: Central-Commission Publisher, 1873), 71 page(s)

Title: Catalogue for the Exhibition of Austrian Women's Work: World Exhibition 1873 in Vienna. Description: The document is a catalogue published on the occasion of the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873. The catalogue gives an introduction on women's work and is followed by a list of producers and goods, which were...

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The Daily Svornost [Concord] to Božena Viková-Kunetická, Chicago, June 8, 1912

written by Daily Svornost (Památník národního písemnictví v Praze, Literární archiv, [Memorial of National Literature, Literary Archives], fond Viková-Kunětická Božena, access. no. 59/55, folder blahopřání k zvolení B. Vikové-Kunětické do sněmu král. Českého z roku 1912 [congratulations on the election of B. Viková-Kunětická to Bohemian Provincial Diet in 1912]) (08 June 1912) , 1 page(s)

TITLE: The Daily Svornost [Concord] to Božena Viková-Kunětická, Chicago, June 8, 1912. DESCRIPTION: The Daily Svornost [The Daily Concord] was the first Czech journal in Chicago, founded in 1875. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was a Czech speaking writer and nationalist politician. In 1912, she was el...

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Drobnosti. Odpověď českej ženy ženám maďarským

in Dennica [Morning Star], Vol. 14, No. 10, October 1912, p. 243 (1912), 2 page(s)

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TITLE: Details: Answer of Czech Women Hungarian Women. DESCRIPTION: Dennica was the first Slovak women’s journal, founded in 1898. The journal was founded and edited by Terésia Vansová (1857-1942), Slovak writer and a leading women’s activist. The short note informs about Božena Viková-Kunětická’s boycott of the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Budapest in 1913. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862... TITLE: Details: Answer of Czech Women Hungarian Women. DESCRIPTION: Dennica was the first Slovak women’s journal, founded in 1898. The journal was founded and edited by Terésia Vansová (1857-1942), Slovak writer and a leading women’s activist. The short note informs about Božena Viková-Kunětická’s boycott of the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Budapest in 1913. Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862-1934) was a Czech speaking writer elected to the Bohemian Provincial (crown land) Diet in 1912. She was the first woman elected to the (regional) parliament in the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1913, she refused to attend the IWSA congress in Budapest after she hadn’t been allowed to give her speech in Czech or Slovak language – which were not the official languages of the Congress – and after her proposition to include the protest against the situation of the Slovak nation in Hungary into the official program of the congress hadn’t been taken into account by the organizers. See also, Božena Viková-Kunětická, “Discours de Mme le deputé Božena Viková-Kunětická sur les femmes et les petites natitions, prononcé à la réunion le 9 juin 1913 à Prague [Speech by Mme. Božena Viková-Kunětická on Women and Small Nations, delivered at the meeting on 9 June 1913 in Prague]” (Speech, Praha [Prague], 1913), Fond Viková-Kunětická Božena, 59/55, folder výstřižky – články otištěné v různých časopisech a novinách z let 1913-1931, Památník národního písemnictví, Literární archiv. Cooperation between Slovak and Czech (Bohemian and Moravian) women, and the topos of Slovak-Czech brotherhood and sisterhood transcended the separation of these nationalities speaking Slavic languages within the Habsburg Monarchy. The Czech lands belonged to Austria (Cisleithania) while the Slovakian lands belonged to Hungary. Austria and Hungary formed the two constitutive parts of the Habsburg Monarchy, each of which was in charge of its own domestic politics. KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Empire and Feminism; Empire and Internationalism; Political and Human Rights; Nationality Rights; Suffrage; Habsburg Empire; Cisleithania; Hungary Show more Show less

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Elena Baiulescu and Elena Muresianu to Emilia Dr. Rațiu, Brașov, 5/16 June 1894

written by Elena Baiulescu, fl. 1860 and Elena Mureşianu, 1862-1924 (Romania. Arhivele Nationale. Arhivele Nationale Istorice Centrale Bucharest, 734/1905, Fond 1246 Personal Fond Dr. Ioan Ratiu, f.1) (16 June 1894) , 4 page(s)

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TITLE: Elena Baiulescu and Elena Muresianu to Emilia Dr. Rațiu, Brașov, 5/16 June 1894. DESCRIPTION: Romanian-language letter on custom-made stationery with “Everything for the Nation” slogan in one corner, addressed to Emilia Rațiu and signed by Elena Baiulescu and Elena Muresianu in the name of the National Committee of Romanian Women. Emilia Rațiu (1846-1929) was a Transylvanian Romanian nationalist activist and a frequent contributor... TITLE: Elena Baiulescu and Elena Muresianu to Emilia Dr. Rațiu, Brașov, 5/16 June 1894. DESCRIPTION: Romanian-language letter on custom-made stationery with “Everything for the Nation” slogan in one corner, addressed to Emilia Rațiu and signed by Elena Baiulescu and Elena Muresianu in the name of the National Committee of Romanian Women. Emilia Rațiu (1846-1929) was a Transylvanian Romanian nationalist activist and a frequent contributor to Familia magazine. She was married to Romanian National Party leader Ioan Rațiu. She was president of the Reunion of Romanian Women in the town of Turda/Torda/Thorenburg, founder of the Women’s Reading Society in the same town in 1873, and an initiator of several other social reform and welfare activities. She led international mobilization efforts in favor of the claims of Transylvanian Romanians within Austria-Hungary, especially following the arrest of Ioan Rațiu in 1894. Ioan Rațiu was arrested following his condemnation for anti-state activity through the distribution of a manifesto on Transylvanian autonomy and linguistic rights in the “Memorandum trial.” Elena Muresianu (1862-1924) was an artist and publicist from Brașov/Brassó/Kronstadt, active in the Women’s Reunion in the city and a founding member of the National Committee of Romanian Women. A graduate of the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (1884-1888), she married into the Muresianu family who published Gazeta Transilvaniei [The Transylvanian Gazette], one of the most significant Romanian-language publications in the region. Between 1909 and 1911, Elena Muresianu was the sole administrator of the newspaper and associated typography, having always been heavily involved in the running of the business. Elena Baiulescu was President of the Reunion of Romanian Women in Brașov/Brassó/Kronstadt in the 1890s and President of the National Committee of Romanian Women, from 1894 to 1896. She was married to Orthodox Archpriest (Protopop) Bartolomeu Baiulescu and the mother to Maria Baiulescu, who would become in the 1900s a visible spokeswoman for socially active women and the Transylvanian Romanian nationalist cause. The National Committee of Romanian Women was described as a “secret committee” of Romanian women founded in Brașov/Brassó/Hermannstadt in 1894 by Elena Muresianu, acting as Secretary, and Elena Baiulescu, as President. The Committee gathered signatures from women all around Transylvania to support the Transylvanian politicians condemned in the Memorandum trial. According to a 1934 article written by a member of the Committee, the Committee gathered “thousands upon thousands” of signatures for letters sent to MPs in Italy and journalists in France, thanking them for the support shown to the “Romanian national cause.” See, Maria Baiulescu, “Participrea femeilor romane din Ardeal in procesul Memorandumului in _Universul_(Bucharest) [The Participation of Romanian Women from Transylvania in the Memorandum Trial in _The Universe_(Bucharest)]” (Newspaper clipping, Bucharest, June 19, 1934), MS 1954, f. 30, “George Baritiu” County Library Special Collections, “George Baritiu” County Library Brasov, Special Collections Unit. The Committee minted decorative medals with the inscription “Everything for the Nation.” The “Memorandum trial” involved the 1894 condemnation of several prominent Transylvanian members of the Romanian National Party for publishing and distributing a manifesto critical of Hungarian centralism but not of the Emperor. The event garnered international attention and significant popular support in Transylvania and other territories inhabited by Romanians. ¶ This letter asks for Rațiu’s consent for writing letters to foreign supporters of the tried Memorandum politicians “not only [in the name of women from Brașov], but also in the name of all Romanian women from Transylvania and Hungary.” The senders consider the issue an important one and mention that they have written “to Romanian ladies from the different towns in Transylvania thus asking for their consent.” The senders mention writing a planned first thank-you letter to Italian MP Imbriani. ¶ This document provides evidence about the formation and mobilization strategies of the National Committee of Romanian Women. It captures a moment in which women involved in the nationalist cause sought to transform gender solidarities forged on municipal bases into the collective solidarity of all “Romanian women from Transylvania and Hungary.” The process mirrors similar developments in the rest of Austria-Hungary at the time. The 1880s were marked by middle-class municipal activism. This development was overshadowed (or in this case, merged) in 1890 by the rise of nationalist, mass mobilization, a political phenomenon that was, in fact, difficult to sustain and had somewhat waned by the early 1900s. In relation to the politics of gendered mobilization, the emphasis on and the use of the language of consent also makes this document an interesting one; it shows how liberal doctrines on contract and consent, assumed to be governing associations and individuals, were part of Transylvanian women’s activism. KEYWORDS: Women and Practices/ Cultures of Empire; Municipal Activism; Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Women and Nation-Building; Women and Struggle Between Nations in the Empire; Women Challenging Empire; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations; Socialism; Political and Human Rights; Habsburg Empire; Transylvania; Comitetul Național al Femeilor Române/National Committee of Romanian Women; Memorandum; Municipal Activism; Mobilization; Networks; k. k. Kunstgewerbeschule/ Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. Show more Show less

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Elisabeth Lee to Emilia Dr. Rațiu, Oxford, 9 April 1894

written by Elisabeth Lee, 1879- (Romania. Arhivele Nationale. Arhivele Nationale Istorice Centrale Bucharest, 911/1894, Fond 1246 Personal Fond Dr. Ioan Ratiu, f.1) (09 April 1894) , 2 page(s)

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TITLE: Elisabeth Lee to Emilia Dr. Rațiu, Oxford, 9 April 1894. DESCRIPTION: French-language letter from Elisabeth Lee to Emilia Rațiu. Elisabeth Lee (1879-?) was an Englishwoman living in Oxford in the house of her brother-in-law, popular Russian and Slavic languages professor W.R. Morfill (married to Charlotte Lee). Emilia Rațiu (1846-1929) was a Transylvanian Romanian nationalist activist and a frequent contributor to Familia magazine. She... TITLE: Elisabeth Lee to Emilia Dr. Rațiu, Oxford, 9 April 1894. DESCRIPTION: French-language letter from Elisabeth Lee to Emilia Rațiu. Elisabeth Lee (1879-?) was an Englishwoman living in Oxford in the house of her brother-in-law, popular Russian and Slavic languages professor W.R. Morfill (married to Charlotte Lee). Emilia Rațiu (1846-1929) was a Transylvanian Romanian nationalist activist and a frequent contributor to Familia magazine. She was married to Romanian National Party leader Ioan Rațiu. She was president of the Reunion of Romanian Women in the town of Turda/Torda/Thorenburg, founder of the Women’s Reading Society in the same town in 1873, and an initiator of several other social reform and welfare activities. She led international mobilization efforts in favor of the claims of Transylvanian Romanians within Austria-Hungary, especially following the arrest of Ioan Rațiu in 1894. Ioan Rațiu was arrested following his condemnation for anti-state activity through the distribution of a manifesto on Transylvanian autonomy and linguistic rights in the “Memorandum trial.” ¶ In reply to the letter received from Emilia Rațiu, Elisabeth Lee thanks Rațiu for the photographs she had sent. Lee remarks on the physiognomy of the Romanian peasants depicted and the qualities they express. She mentions that she has been told about inhabitants, landscapes, and language by her brother-in-law, who had travelled in the region. For Rațiu’s initial letter, see Emilia Dr. Rațiu, “Emilia Dr. Rațiu to Elisabeth Lee [1894]” (Draft Letter, Turda, 1894), 912/1894, Fond 1246 Personal Fond Dr. Ioan Ratiu, ff.1-2, Arhivele Nationale Istorice Centrale Bucharest. ¶ Elisabeth Lee’s brief letter can be read in the context of emerging interest in England for Transylvania because of ethnography and women’s travel writing. Ethnography developed in the Austrian side of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a way of emphasizing the monarchy’s protection of diversity, whereas in the Hungarian side ethnography served assimilation goals. This may have led to a particular “ethnographic gaze” among Transylvanian artists and intellectuals, one that emphasized both ethnic diversity and essential ethnic difference. In the case of the British Empire, ethnography underpinned the colonial enterprise and fed citizens’ fantasies of empire. The correspondence between the two women might be read as the intersection of the two, quite distinctive “ethnographic gazes” of differently positioned imperial subjects. KEYWORDS: Women and Practices/ Cultures of Empire; Imperial Identity; Ethnography; Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Social Reform and Political Activism; Habsburg Empire; Transylvania; Photographs; Mobilization; Networks. Show more Show less

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Františka Plamínková to Carrie Chapman Catt, 1909

written by Františka Plamínková, 1875-1942 (Památník národního písemnictví v Praze, Literární archiv, [Memorial of National Literature, Literary Archives], fond Výbor pro volební právo žen – Praha [Committee for Women’s Voting Rights - Prague], access. no. 22/76, inv. no. 2568) (1909) , 3 page(s)

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TITLE: Františka Plamínková to Carrie Chapman Catt, 1909. DESCRIPTION: Františka Plamínková (1875-1942) was the leader of the Czech speaking women’s suffrage movement in Bohemia. Bohemia was a crown land of Austria (Cisleithania). Plamínková led Výbor pro volební právo žen [Committee for Women's Voting Rights], which she had cofounded in 1905. It was a group of women which since the end of 1905 coordinated the activities of the Czec... TITLE: Františka Plamínková to Carrie Chapman Catt, 1909. DESCRIPTION: Františka Plamínková (1875-1942) was the leader of the Czech speaking women’s suffrage movement in Bohemia. Bohemia was a crown land of Austria (Cisleithania). Plamínková led Výbor pro volební právo žen [Committee for Women's Voting Rights], which she had cofounded in 1905. It was a group of women which since the end of 1905 coordinated the activities of the Czech speaking women for women’s suffrage in Bohemia. In the letter, Plamínková informs the president of International Woman Suffrage Alliance IWSA, Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) that the Committee for Women’s Voting Rights will send its member, the teacher Marie Tůmová, to the forthcoming by-election to the Czech Provincial Diet. The curial electoral system to the Diet, in use since 1861, was based on tax and property qualifications and thus excluded a major part of the citizens on the basis of class. At the same time the regulations pertaining to the Bohemian Diet used gender neutral terms – some women thus were not deprived from the right to vote to the Diet, some were not explicitly excluded from the passive electoral right. The letter also deals with the formalities concerning upcoming visit of Chapman Catt in Prague. The visit took place at the end of March 1909. See also, “Pozvání na veřejnou schůzi konanou 25. 3. 1909 u příležitosti návštěvy C. Chapman-Catt v Praze [Invitation to the public meeting held in Prague March 25, 1909 on the occasion of the visit of C. Chapmann-Catt]” (Flyer, Praha [Prague], 1909), fond Ženský klub český – Praha [The Czech Women’s Club – Prague], access. no. 22/75, in. no. 1477, Památník národního písemnictví, Literární archiv [Memorial of National Literature, Literary Archives]. KEYWORDS: Women Interacting with Women, Social Movements, and Other Actors Beyond Empire; Empire and Internationalism; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Habsburg Empire Show more Show less

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Frauentag 1912

written by Adelheid Popp, 1869-1939, Frauenreichskomitee (Verein für Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung (VGA) [Association for the History of the Workers' Movement]) (1912) , 2 page(s)

Title: Women's Day 1912. Description: The document is an anniversary publication of the Sozialdemokratische Frauenreichskomitee Österreichs [Social-Democratic Women's Committee of Austria] on the occasion of the Women's Day in 1912. It gathers articles dealing with the mobilisation of the Polish, Slovene, Czech f...

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