How did a penniless nineteenth-century farm woman with an alcoholic husband, seven children, and little education, living in a rural backwater of the tsarist Russian empire far from any centers of culture manage to become the initiator of literary prose fiction in the Lithuanian language and write six volumes of stories, plays, and letters? Not only that, but she also distinguished herself as a feminist activist against patriarchy, especially the centuries-long tradition of arranged marriages. During the First World War she traveled the United States for five years, giving speeches from Chicago to New Hampshire for the cause of relieving the famine and suffering of her war-torn country.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by Violeta Kelertas…………………………1
SELECTED WORKS BY ŽEMAITĖ
The Injustices Done to Village Girls……………………17
Žemaitė‘s Autobiography (unfinished)………………..177
Petras Kurmelis…………………………………………187
The Daughter-in-Law……………………………………197
Afterword…………………………………………………303
关于作者
Maryte Racys is a librarian at the Seattle Public Library. She studied English Literature at Victoria University Toronto and completed graduate studies in Library Sciences at the University of Toronto. She has been a professional librarian in two countries for forty-five years. She completed training at the Academy of Theater Arts in Toronto, Canada and has had a lifelong interest in Eastern philosophy.
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