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Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád", Nyiregyháza, 6 August 1917
written by Ödön Groák, fl. 1917 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 3 Folder 5) (06 August 1917) , 3 page(s)
TITLE: Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád" [My Gracious Lady], Nyiregyháza, 6 August 1917. DESCRIPTION: Letter discussing a lecture given in August 1917 related to women’s suffrage, in particular options of qualified vs. universal suffrage for women and related demands and discourses involving the question...
written by Ödön Groák, fl. 1917 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 3 Folder 5) (06 August 1917) , 3 page(s)
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TITLE: Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád" [My Gracious Lady], Nyiregyháza, 6 August 1917. DESCRIPTION: Letter discussing a lecture given in August 1917 related to women’s suffrage, in particular options of qualified vs. universal suffrage for women and related demands and discourses involving the question of class and gender. The Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete) at the time was the leading progressive-liberal organization in...
TITLE: Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád" [My Gracious Lady], Nyiregyháza, 6 August 1917. DESCRIPTION: Letter discussing a lecture given in August 1917 related to women’s suffrage, in particular options of qualified vs. universal suffrage for women and related demands and discourses involving the question of class and gender. The Feminist Association (Feministák Egyesülete) at the time was the leading progressive-liberal organization in Hungary. This letter, among two others in this digital archive, are written by Mrs. Ödön Groák, who (in 1916) was the President of the Feminist Association Nyiregyháza (Feministák Egyesülete Nyiregyháza). See also, “Mrs. Imre Turcsányi to Dr. József Szalay (leading police officer Szeged), Szeged, 27 June 1916” (Letter, Szeged, June 27, 1916), P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 3 Folder 5, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary]. KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; World War I; Women’s War Time Activism; Liberal-Progressive Women’s Movement Spreading all over Hungary; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Restricted Suffrage for Women; Work and Class Identity; Gender and Class; Habsburg Empire
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
06 August 1917, 1917
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ödön Groák, fl. 1917
Topic / Theme
World War I, 1914-1918, Work and Class Identity, Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Class Discrimination, Women as “Proletariat”, Social and Cultural Rights, Non-aligned Social Movements, Empire and Feminism, Hungarians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád", Nyiregyháza, 8 August 1917
written by Ödön Groák, fl. 1917 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 3 Folder 5) (08 August 1917) , 2 page(s)
TITLE: Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád" [My Gracious Lady], Nyiregyháza, 8 August 1917. DESCRIPTION: Letter reporting that and why the author resigns, in consequence of a conflict in relation to a lecture given in August 1917 related to women’s suffrage. The letter carries the letterhead Feminist Associa...
written by Ödön Groák, fl. 1917 (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára [National Archives of Hungary – National Archives], P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 3 Folder 5) (08 August 1917) , 2 page(s)
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TITLE: Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád" [My Gracious Lady], Nyiregyháza, 8 August 1917. DESCRIPTION: Letter reporting that and why the author resigns, in consequence of a conflict in relation to a lecture given in August 1917 related to women’s suffrage. The letter carries the letterhead Feminist Association Nyiregyháza (Feministák Egyesülete Nyiregyháza). The Feminist Association at the time was the leading progressive-liberal orga...
TITLE: Mrs. Ödön Groák to "Kedves Nagysád" [My Gracious Lady], Nyiregyháza, 8 August 1917. DESCRIPTION: Letter reporting that and why the author resigns, in consequence of a conflict in relation to a lecture given in August 1917 related to women’s suffrage. The letter carries the letterhead Feminist Association Nyiregyháza (Feministák Egyesülete Nyiregyháza). The Feminist Association at the time was the leading progressive-liberal organization in Hungary. This letter, among two others in this digital archive, are written by Mrs. Ödön Groák, who (in 1916) was the President of the Feminist Association Nyiregyháza (Feministák Egyesülete Nyiregyháza). See also, “Mrs. Imre Turcsányi to Dr. József Szalay (leading police officer Szeged), Szeged, 27 June 1916” (Letter, Szeged, June 27, 1916), P999 Feministák Egyesülete [Feminist Association], Box 3 Folder 5, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary]. KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; World War I; Women’s War Time Activism; Liberal-Progressive Women’s Movement Spreading all over Hungary; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Work and Class Identity; Woman Workers; Habsburg Empire
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
08 August 1917, 1917
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Ödön Groák, fl. 1917
Topic / Theme
World War I, 1914-1918, Work and Class Identity, Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Class Discrimination, Women as “Proletariat”, Social and Cultural Rights, Non-aligned Social Movements, Empire and Feminism, Hungarians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Noi szózat Erdélybol
written by Amália Csiszár, 1816-1850 (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár [National Széchényi Library]), in Pesti Divatlap [Fashion Magazine of Pest], No. 18, April 15, 1848, pp. 471–472 (1848), 2 page(s)
TITLE: Women’s Proclamation from Transylvania. DESCRIPTION: This article is from the 8 April 1848 issue of the journal Pesti Divatlap (Pest Fashion Journal). The author is Amália Csiszár, who comments from Transylvania on the revolutionary events in Pest (later forming part of the Hungarian capital city Budape...
written by Amália Csiszár, 1816-1850 (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár [National Széchényi Library]), in Pesti Divatlap [Fashion Magazine of Pest], No. 18, April 15, 1848, pp. 471–472 (1848), 2 page(s)
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TITLE: Women’s Proclamation from Transylvania. DESCRIPTION: This article is from the 8 April 1848 issue of the journal Pesti Divatlap (Pest Fashion Journal). The author is Amália Csiszár, who comments from Transylvania on the revolutionary events in Pest (later forming part of the Hungarian capital city Budapest). Csiszar extends her greetings, expresses her hope for change to reach Transylvania soon, and calls for watchfulness and alertness...
TITLE: Women’s Proclamation from Transylvania. DESCRIPTION: This article is from the 8 April 1848 issue of the journal Pesti Divatlap (Pest Fashion Journal). The author is Amália Csiszár, who comments from Transylvania on the revolutionary events in Pest (later forming part of the Hungarian capital city Budapest). Csiszar extends her greetings, expresses her hope for change to reach Transylvania soon, and calls for watchfulness and alertness since the “oceans of machinations” can annihilate the best achievements, and such sudden turn can foreclose everything good for centuries. The author apologizes for her “weak talent” when as a female intruding into men’s things, arguing that it is exactly woman’s feebleness which makes her incapable of overpowering her enthusiastic feelings with regard to public affairs. The journal editor does not hesitate to give his comment: “Even the weakest appeal by a zealous daughter of the homeland [or female patriot (honleány)] is stronger than the one by a (male) patriot – while her call (tekintet) to deeds is omnipotent.” KEYWORDS: Women and Nation within Empire; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations; Habsburg Empire; Hungary
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Author / Creator
Amália Csiszár, 1816-1850
Date Published / Released
15 April 1848, 1848
Topic / Theme
Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Empire and Feminism, Romanians, Hungarians
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Noszabadság
written by Jókai, Mór, 1825-1904 (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár [National Széchényi Library]), in Életképek. Nép szava [Genre Paintings: Voice of the People], Vol. 9 no. 13, March 23, 1848, pp. 385–387 (1848), 3 page(s)
TITLE: Women’s Freedom! DESCRIPTION: This article is from the literary and social review Életképek (Scenes from Life), 23 March 1848. After the beginning of the Hungarian revolution, under the editorship of Sándor Petőfi and Mór Jókai (1825-1904), the journal came to popularize radical democratic and repub...
written by Jókai, Mór, 1825-1904 (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár [National Széchényi Library]), in Életképek. Nép szava [Genre Paintings: Voice of the People], Vol. 9 no. 13, March 23, 1848, pp. 385–387 (1848), 3 page(s)
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TITLE: Women’s Freedom! DESCRIPTION: This article is from the literary and social review Életképek (Scenes from Life), 23 March 1848. After the beginning of the Hungarian revolution, under the editorship of Sándor Petőfi and Mór Jókai (1825-1904), the journal came to popularize radical democratic and republican ideas. Written in a lofty, exalted, jubilant rhythmic prose testifying to Lamennais’s influence, the young fiction writer Jóka...
TITLE: Women’s Freedom! DESCRIPTION: This article is from the literary and social review Életképek (Scenes from Life), 23 March 1848. After the beginning of the Hungarian revolution, under the editorship of Sándor Petőfi and Mór Jókai (1825-1904), the journal came to popularize radical democratic and republican ideas. Written in a lofty, exalted, jubilant rhythmic prose testifying to Lamennais’s influence, the young fiction writer Jókai extols the participation of women in the revolution in Pest (later on merged into the city of Budapest which came into being in 1872), on 15 March. By recalling the tri-colour cockades that “excited women pinned upon the fighters’ breasts,”, Jókai makes a reference to his first encounter with his future wife, the actress Róza Laborfalvy, which took place under exactly such circumstances on that day. For an account on women in the Hungarian revolution of 1848/1849, Robert Nemes, “Getting to the Source: Women in the 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution,” Journal of Women’s History 13, no. 3 (Autumn 2001): 193–207 (15pp.). KEYWORDS: Women Challenging Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political and Human Rights; Equal Rights for Women; Habsburg Empire; Hungary
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Author / Creator
Jókai, Mór, 1825-1904
Date Published / Released
23 March 1848, 1848
Person Discussed
Jókai, Mór, 1825-1904, Róza Laborfalvi, 1817-1886
Topic / Theme
Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Equal Rights for Women, Human Rights, Social and Cultural Rights, Empire and Feminism, Hungarians
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Paní Božena Viková-Kunětická
in Živena, Vol. 4 no. 10, 1912, pp. 351-352 (1912), 2 page(s)
TITLE: Ms. Božena Viková-Kunětická. DESCRIPTION: The women’s journal, Živena, founded in 1910, was connected to the Slovak women’s association Živena and edited by its chairwoman Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová (1855-1939), Slovak writer, editor and publicist and a leading figure of Slovak women’s activism...
in Živena, Vol. 4 no. 10, 1912, pp. 351-352 (1912), 2 page(s)
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TITLE: Ms. Božena Viková-Kunětická. DESCRIPTION: The women’s journal, Živena, founded in 1910, was connected to the Slovak women’s association Živena and edited by its chairwoman Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová (1855-1939), Slovak writer, editor and publicist and a leading figure of Slovak women’s activism. She is also most likely the author of the text. The text deals with the election of the Czech speaking writer Božena Viková Kuněti...
TITLE: Ms. Božena Viková-Kunětická. DESCRIPTION: The women’s journal, Živena, founded in 1910, was connected to the Slovak women’s association Živena and edited by its chairwoman Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová (1855-1939), Slovak writer, editor and publicist and a leading figure of Slovak women’s activism. She is also most likely the author of the text. The text deals with the election of the Czech speaking writer Božena Viková Kunětická (1862-1934) to the Bohemian Provincial (crown land) Diet in 1912. Božena Viková-Kunětická was the first woman elected to the (regional) parliament in the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1913 she refused to attend the seventh congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) 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. The author writes about the event from the perspective of Slovak nationalism. She points out that the election of the woman to the diet was such a surprising event that it even surpassed the “old German-Slavic resentment.” She states that Viková-Kunětická was warmly welcomed by the German speaking women at the women's election congress in Munich, Germany on September 23, 1912 and her speech was appreciated there. The author of the article appreciates that Viková-Kunětická condemned the suppression of the Slavs in Austria-Hungary and in particular showed sympathy with the Slovaks in her speech at the congress in Munich. She also appreciates Kunětická’s attitude towards the IWSA congress in Budapest. According to the author Czech women can be satisfied with their representative to the Bohemian diet. She expresses the gratitude for her interest in Slovak women. See also, “Náš mladý král’ovský pár [Our Young Royal Couple],” Živena 7, no. 12 (December 1916): 236–237 (2pp.). 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, including suffrage. 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; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Empire and Feminism; Empire and Internationalism; Political and Human Rights; Nationality Rights; Suffrage; Habsburg Empire; Cisleithania; Hungary; Slovakia
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Date Published / Released
1912
Person Discussed
Božena Viková-Kunětická, 1862-1934
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Education, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Suffrage, Social and Cultural Rights, National Identity, Indigenous Languages, Empire and Feminism, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovak
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Pesti Divatlap és Nemzetor, együtt megjeleno lapok programmja.
written by Imre Vahot, 1820-1879 (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár [National Széchényi Library]), in Pesti Divatlap [Fashion Magazine of Pest], No. 24, May 27, 1848, pp. 1–4 (1848), 4 page(s)
TITLE: Programme of the Jointly Published Journals Budapesti Divatlap and Nemzetőr. DESCRIPTION: A platform article laying out the program of the journal Budapesti Divatlap (Budapest Fashion Journal), formerly Pesti Divatlap, in the wake of the revolution of 1848 and the lifting of censorship, from the 27 March i...
written by Imre Vahot, 1820-1879 (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár [National Széchényi Library]), in Pesti Divatlap [Fashion Magazine of Pest], No. 24, May 27, 1848, pp. 1–4 (1848), 4 page(s)
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TITLE: Programme of the Jointly Published Journals Budapesti Divatlap and Nemzetőr. DESCRIPTION: A platform article laying out the program of the journal Budapesti Divatlap (Budapest Fashion Journal), formerly Pesti Divatlap, in the wake of the revolution of 1848 and the lifting of censorship, from the 27 March issue. The editor Imre Vahot boasts that the long-time progressive stance of his journal exempts him from an ideological recalibration....
TITLE: Programme of the Jointly Published Journals Budapesti Divatlap and Nemzetőr. DESCRIPTION: A platform article laying out the program of the journal Budapesti Divatlap (Budapest Fashion Journal), formerly Pesti Divatlap, in the wake of the revolution of 1848 and the lifting of censorship, from the 27 March issue. The editor Imre Vahot boasts that the long-time progressive stance of his journal exempts him from an ideological recalibration. He describes it as a social rather than narrowly political magazine, intended for a chiefly female readership. At the same time, he announces the launching of a new supplement for women and men alike, titled Nemzetőr (Guardian of the Nation) after the militia set up in the first days of the revolution, a martial inspiration extended to the titles of columns as well. Nemzetőr will function as the “chivalrous life companion” of the Divatlap, or the “Lady hitherto still without husband,” and it will speak to women and men alike. Nemzetőr will militate for the “propagation of Hungarian nationality.” KEYWORDS: Women and Nation within Empire; Women and Nation-Building; Women and National Languages; Women and Education; Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation; Education in National Languages; Social Reform and Political Activism; Child Care; Habsburg Empire
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Author / Creator
Imre Vahot, 1820-1879
Date Published / Released
27 May 1848, 1848
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Indigenous Languages, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Empire and Education, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Empire and Feminism, Hungarians
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Petition for the women's suffrage, February 1911
written by Franja Tavčarjeva, fl. 1907 (Zgodovinski arhiv Ljubljana, ZAL, LJU 285, 20479) (14 February 1911) , 3 page(s)
TITLE: Petition for the Women’s Suffrage. DESCRIPTION: The document is a petition of the Committee for women’s suffrage based in Ljubljana, demanding the Abgeordnetenhaus (the House of Deputies) of the Reichsrat (the Imperial Council) to adopt the law guaranteeing general, equal, direct and secret voting right...
written by Franja Tavčarjeva, fl. 1907 (Zgodovinski arhiv Ljubljana, ZAL, LJU 285, 20479) (14 February 1911) , 3 page(s)
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TITLE: Petition for the Women’s Suffrage. DESCRIPTION: The document is a petition of the Committee for women’s suffrage based in Ljubljana, demanding the Abgeordnetenhaus (the House of Deputies) of the Reichsrat (the Imperial Council) to adopt the law guaranteeing general, equal, direct and secret voting rights to women as well as to men. The document is signed by Franja Tavčarjeva, the president of Splošnoslovenskoženskodruštvo (General...
TITLE: Petition for the Women’s Suffrage. DESCRIPTION: The document is a petition of the Committee for women’s suffrage based in Ljubljana, demanding the Abgeordnetenhaus (the House of Deputies) of the Reichsrat (the Imperial Council) to adopt the law guaranteeing general, equal, direct and secret voting rights to women as well as to men. The document is signed by Franja Tavčarjeva, the president of Splošnoslovenskoženskodruštvo (General Slovene Women’s Society), on behalf of the "progressive womanhood of Ljubljana". This demand, submitted in February 1911, was followed by the petition of similar content, hand signed by sixteen women, members of the same society, submitted in November 1911. In the text, the argument for women’s suffrage is based on reference to the principle of justice, since the basic law gives to all citizens equal rights before the law. After enumerating women’s duties, the signatories demand equal rights for equal duties. They refute the militarist argument against women’s suffrage, which referred to the fact that women do not serve in the army. According to text, militarism is not a basis for social development. Finally, the authors remind that in 1905, the Czech deputies proposed a resolution demanding of government to do necessary steps for preparing the proposal for women’s suffrage. Keywords: Women and Institutions of Empire; Political and Human Rights; Suffrage; Equal Rights for Women; Habsburg Empire
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
14 February 1911, 1911
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Franja Tavčarjeva, fl. 1907
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women and Immigration, Suffrage, Empire and Feminism, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, Human Rights, Citizenship Rights, Czechs, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Portrait of Veres Pálné Beniczky Hermin [Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky]
(Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár [Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library], Budapest, Hungary) (1902), in Veres Pálné Beniczky Hermin élete és működése. Hálás tisztelete jeléül kiadta: az Országos Nőképző-Egyesület [Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published As a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education], edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. (Budapest: Az Atheneum irod. és nyomdai r.-társulat könyvnyomdája, 1902). p. NA (1902), 1 page(s)
TITLE: Portrait of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, frontmatter (1p.). DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1902 publication Life and Activit...
(Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár [Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library], Budapest, Hungary) (1902), in Veres Pálné Beniczky Hermin élete és működése. Hálás tisztelete jeléül kiadta: az Országos Nőképző-Egyesület [Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published As a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education], edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. (Budapest: Az Atheneum irod. és nyomdai r.-társulat könyvnyomdája, 1902). p. NA (1902), 1 page(s)
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TITLE: Portrait of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, frontmatter (1p.). DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1902 publication Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. The book contains an extensive account of...
TITLE: Portrait of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, in Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, Published as a Token of Grateful Adoration by the National Association for Women's Education, frontmatter (1p.). DESCRIPTION: This document is one of nine extracts from the 1902 publication Life and Activity of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky, edited by Mrs. József Rudnay and Mrs. Gyula Szigethy. The book contains an extensive account of the life and activities of Beniczky and reprints of many original documents. Hermin Beniczky, usually remembered as Mrs. Pál Veres (1815-1895), was a pioneer of Hungarian women’s education, founder in 1868 of the National Association for Women’s Education (Országos Nőképző-Egyesület) and its long-term President, and co-founder in 1869 of the first high school for girls in Hungary. See the biographical summary of her in Krassimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, and Francisca de Haan, A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006), 54-57. The extracts selected include a collection of writings dating from the period 1865–69. These include Beniczky’s calls from 1865 and 1867, her treatise from 1868 and documents of her lobbying with the governing party from 1868–69, when she submitted a petition signed by nine thousand women to the Hungarian parliament, requesting a law on higher women’s schools with public funding. In her writings, Beniczky condemned the exclusive concern for languages and etiquette in the upbringing of upper-class girls and argued that a more meaningful education would also help secure a livelihood for unmarried and widowed women. Taking note of a general shift from physical towards intellectual work, she set out a broad range of possible female careers. However, she kept distancing herself from any more far-reaching concept of women’s emancipation. There is also a portrait of Beniczky. Another selection from Beniczky’s writings from the period 1869 to 1883, includes opening speeches from the Association’s general assembly meetings, letters, papers and addresses. The initiative to finance higher women’s schools from public funds failed in lack of political backing. The central school, however, got under way in 1869 with Hungarian as the sole language of instruction, and although Beniczky complained about high attrition rates, it soon launched a teacher training track as well. Finally, a selection from the documents from the period 1869–94 include the statutes of the National Association, the first curriculum of the central school for the two lower grades, a report on its opening, a call by the Association to celebrate the royal couple’s 25 year coronation jubilee (Francis Joseph was Emperor of Austria since 1848 but had been crowned King of Hungary only in 1867), its congratulatory letter sent on the same occasion, and contributions to the 25 year jubilee of the National Association itself in 1893. The curriculum is remarkable for giving a close glimpse at Beniczky’s ambitious vision of women’s education. Girls of thirteen to fourteen years of age in the general track studied all of the following subjects: art history, aesthetics, pedagogy, hygienic, Hungarian, German and French, arithmetic, drawing, thinking, ethics, Hungarian cultural history and civics, Hungarian literary history and chemistry applied to the household. A few letters received by Mrs. Veres, writings about her, and writings which address her activities and other important events in relation to women’s education, such as for instance the speech by the Minister for education, Gyula Wlassics, on the occasion of the opening of the National Association’s girls’ gymnasium in 1896, are also included. In 1906 a statue was erected in Budapest depicturing Mrs. Veres, wearing a Hungarian national costume. Today, the statue is placed at the beginning of Mrs. Pál Veres Street (Veres Pálné utca) in the inner city of the Hungarian capital. Its pedestal carries the inscription “Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky. She fought for the cause that Woman with her education and her soul may become a factor/agent (tényező) of national welfare.” For more on the sculpture, see Veres Pálné, Beniczky Hermin szobra [The Sculpture of Mrs. Pál Veres Hermin Beniczky] (Budapest, 1906). KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; Dynasty; Elisabeth Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria; Women and Nation within Empire; Women and Nation-Building; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Empire Silenced; Women and Education; Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation; Social Reform and Political Activism; Political Parties and Other Male-Dominated Organizations; Habsburg Empire; Austria; Hungary.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1902
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Photograph
Date Published / Released
1902
Person Discussed
Hermin Beniczky, 1815-1895
Topic / Theme
Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Women and Education, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Political Parties and Other Male Dominated Organizations, Social and Cultural Rights, National Identity, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Empire and Feminism
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Príhlas k ct. obecenstvu slovenskému
written by Anna Mudroňová, 1864-1954, Ambro Pietor, 1843-1906 and Anna Pivková, 1835-1921, in Živena. Národní almanach [Živena: National Almanac]. (Turč. Sv. Martin, Slovakia: Knihtlačiarsky-účastinárský spolok, 1872), pp. 226-232 (1872), 7 page(s)
TITLE: “Statement to the Revered Slovak Audience” in Živena: National Almanac. DESCRIPTION: The text is a declaration of the leaders of Živena to a Slovak audience, published in 1872. Živena was the first women’s association of Slovak women (women identifying themselves with the Slovak nation), founded in...
written by Anna Mudroňová, 1864-1954, Ambro Pietor, 1843-1906 and Anna Pivková, 1835-1921, in Živena. Národní almanach [Živena: National Almanac]. (Turč. Sv. Martin, Slovakia: Knihtlačiarsky-účastinárský spolok, 1872), pp. 226-232 (1872), 7 page(s)
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TITLE: “Statement to the Revered Slovak Audience” in Živena: National Almanac. DESCRIPTION: The text is a declaration of the leaders of Živena to a Slovak audience, published in 1872. Živena was the first women’s association of Slovak women (women identifying themselves with the Slovak nation), founded in 1869.The text is signed by Anna Pivková (1835-1921), the first chairwoman of the association, Ambro Pietor (1843-1906), the secretary...
TITLE: “Statement to the Revered Slovak Audience” in Živena: National Almanac. DESCRIPTION: The text is a declaration of the leaders of Živena to a Slovak audience, published in 1872. Živena was the first women’s association of Slovak women (women identifying themselves with the Slovak nation), founded in 1869.The text is signed by Anna Pivková (1835-1921), the first chairwoman of the association, Ambro Pietor (1843-1906), the secretary of the association, and Anna Mudroňová (1864-1954), the treasurer of the association. The support for women’s education is presented as a national question. In order for the Slovak nation to be strong, it is necessary for education to affect all its members - so also Slovak women. The main goal of the association was therefore to support the education of Slovak women in the national language. The text emphasizes that the education of individuals and nations begins at the home hearth, and women as educators are therefore an important factor in national awareness. The association planned to achieve its goals by establishing schools for girls in Slovak language. The authors turn to “Slovak parents”, “fathers and brothers” and “mothers and sisters” requesting their support. According to the text the household continues to constitute the main field of women’s activity; education is to make women into good Christians, housekeepers, and patriots. See also, Ambróz Pietor, “Slovenky pozor! [Slovak Women, Beware!],” Národní hlásník [National Watchman] 2, no. 6 (1869): 169–73 (5pp.); and “Úloha ‘Živeny’ [Mission of ‘Živena’],” in Živena. Národní almanach [Živena. National Almanac] (Turč. Sv. Martin: Knihtlačiarsky-účastinárský spolok, 1885), 299–308 (10pp.). KEYWORDS: Women and Nation within Empire; Women and Nation-Building; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Women and Education; Gendered Education; Education in National Languages; Habsburg Empire; Hungary; Slovakia
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Section
Author / Creator
Anna Mudroňová, 1864-1954, Ambro Pietor, 1843-1906, Anna Pivková, 1835-1921
Date Published / Released
1872
Person Discussed
Anna Mudroňová, 1864-1954, Ambro Pietor, 1843-1906, Anna Pivková, 1835-1921
Topic / Theme
Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Education, Political and Human Rights, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Gendered Education, Indigenous Languages, Empire and Education, Social and Cultural Rights, National Identity, Equal Rights for Women, Empire and Feminism, Slovak
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Rad Dobrotvornih Zadruga Srpkinja: Novi Sad
written by Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women, in Ženski svet, Vol. 19, no. 3, January 3, 1904, pp. 58-60 (1904), 3 page(s)
TITLE: Activities of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women: Novi Sad. DESCRIPTION: This article is a report on the general meeting of the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian Women from Novi Sad, the Vojvodina, held in February 1904, which discusses the activities of the cooperative in the previous year. It in...
written by Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women, in Ženski svet, Vol. 19, no. 3, January 3, 1904, pp. 58-60 (1904), 3 page(s)
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TITLE: Activities of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women: Novi Sad. DESCRIPTION: This article is a report on the general meeting of the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian Women from Novi Sad, the Vojvodina, held in February 1904, which discusses the activities of the cooperative in the previous year. It includes an invitation to Serbian women’s associations to participate in forming an Alliance of Women’s Organizations of Hungary (Mag...
TITLE: Activities of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women: Novi Sad. DESCRIPTION: This article is a report on the general meeting of the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian Women from Novi Sad, the Vojvodina, held in February 1904, which discusses the activities of the cooperative in the previous year. It includes an invitation to Serbian women’s associations to participate in forming an Alliance of Women’s Organizations of Hungary (Magyarországi Nőegyesületek Szövetsége). The Vojvodina belonged to the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia which enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, or Hungary, in the dual Monarchy (from 1867) of Austria-Hungary. Serbian was one of the dominant languages spoken in the Vojvodina. The text was published in Ženski svet. List dobrotvornih zadruga Srpkinja (Women’s World: Journal of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women). The journal was published between 1886 and 1914 in Novi Sad (Újvidék), the Vojvodina, by the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian Women from Novi Sad (Dobrotvorna zadruga Srpkinja Novosatkinja). The editor of the journal was Arkadije Varađanin, a man who was an active proponent of women’s rights and who was a teacher and director of the Serbian High School for Girls established in Novi Sad, in 1874. The beginning of the article mentions that the cooperative has agreed to continue supporting the Serbian-Orthodox kindergarten in Novi Sad, and it talks about the amount of money on disposal. It also mentions that the Hungarian ministry has given permission that all Serbian women’s cooperatives “from this side of the border” create an alliance. See also, “Pravila za savez Dobrotvornih Zadruga Srpkinja iz Austro-Ugarske, Bosne i Hercegovine [Statute of the Alliance of the Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women from Austria-Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina],” Ženski svet, January 3, 1902; and “Prva skupština Saveza Dobrotvornih Zadruga Srpkinja [The First Assembly of the Alliance of Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women],” Ženski svet, January 6, 1902. Additionally, the article reports that on the meeting the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian Women in Novi Sad held in February 1904, an important public letter was read. The letter was written in February 1904 in Budapest and signed by Countess Josefin Teleki, the leading representative of the National Association for Women’s Education (Országos Nőképző-Egyesület, translated into Serbian as Državna zadruga za obrazovanje ženskih). In the letter, the Countess invites Serbian women’s associations (in fact, Charitable Women’s Cooperatives of Serbian Women from different places in the Vojvodina) to participate in establishing an alliance of all the women’s organizations in the country, which would be called the Alliance of Women’s Organizations in Hungary (Magyarországi Nőegyesületek Szövetsége, translated into Serbian as Savez ženskih zadruga u Ugarskoj; the alliance was established in 1904 and thereupon became a member of the International Council of Women). The goals of the Alliance were described as follows: to introduce the women’s activities to the wider audiences; to connect all women from all over the country; to serve as a means of communication between all women (from Hungary); to support the representation of women from Hungary abroad. During the meeting of the Charitable Cooperative of Serbian Women from Novi Sad it was decided to reply positively to the invitation, but only under condition that the Alliance would consist of ethnic sections. KEYWORDS: Women and Institutions of Empire; Women and Nation within Empire; Relations Between Women of Different Nationalities; Women and Nation-Building; Women and Relationship Between Nations in the Empire; Women and Struggle Between Nations in the Empire; Women and National Languages; National Identity; Empire and Feminism; Ethnic divisions; Empire and Internationalism; Social Reform and Political Activism; Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements; Ethnic divisions; Political and Human Rights; Nationality Rights; Social and Cultural Rights; Equal Rights for Women; Women and Education; Access to Primary Education/Literacy; Education in National Languages; Habsburg Empire; Hungary; Vojvodina; Novi Sad; Serbia; Hungary
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical article
Author / Creator
Charitable Cooperatives of Serbian Women
Date Published / Released
03 January 1904, 1904
Person Discussed
Arkadije Varađanin, fl. 1874, Josefin Teleki, fl. 1904
Topic / Theme
Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Women and Immigration, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Women and Education, Empire and Feminism, Nationality Rights, Multi-Ethnic Participation in Social Movements, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, Education as a Source of Women’s Emancipation, Empire and Internationalism, Serbians
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