Teréza Nováková

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Teréza Nováková (1899)

Teréza Nováková , née Langhaus , (born July 31, 1853 in Prague ; † November 13, 1912 there ) was a Czech writer . The representative of realism was one of the active members of women's emancipation in Bohemia .

Life

Tereza, nee Langhaus, grew up in a Czech- and German-speaking family. Trained in private girls' schools, her father made her familiar with the Czech national culture. After her marriage in 1876 to the high school professor and literary historian Josef Novák (born March 3, 1847 in Prague), she moved to Leitomischl , where her son Arne Novák was born in 1880 . During her stay, she observed the local folk customs and fought in women's circles for equal rights for women. After the death of her husband, she returned to Prague in 1895 and was editor of the feminist magazine Frauenwelt (Ženský svět) from 1897 to 1908 and lived in the East Bohemian town of Proseč after 1908 .

Nováková is the author of a literary work that is still one of the classic works in Czech fiction. Her initially romantic view, shaped by an urban milieu, developed into great works of realistic storytelling with a wide range of topics from East Bohemian country life, also included in travelogues. Some of her best-known books address historical topics from the Counter Reformation in Bohemia . Her socially critical novels show her particularly strong sense of individual character portrayal .

In these novels she dealt with the attitude of the inhabitants in East Bohemian villages to their authorities. Their heroes are looking for justice, they fight for a common social progress that approaches the way of life in socialism . Therefore she also wrote stories from the milieu of the poor and the workers.

Publications (selection)

stories

  • Artificial stone quarries ( Úlomky žuly ), 1902
  • Big cleaning in Librov ( Na Librově gruntě ), 1907 - the year 1848 in the village, describes the situation after the abolition of inheritance

Biographies, books about personalities

  • Jiří Šmatlán , 1906 - biography of a person who finds his way from faith to socialism, 1906
  • Karolína Světlá , její život její a spisy (KS, her life, her writings), 1890

Novels

  • Maloměstský román (small town novel ), 1890 - describes the fate of the daughter of Karel Havlíček Borovský , whom she dedicated to Karolína Světlá .
  • Jan Jílek , 1904 - A novel about a believer, the Protestant emigrant Jan Jílek , 1904
  • Děti čistého živého (children of the clean life), 1909 - questions of faith groups dedicated to the mysticism turn
  • Drašar , 1914 - deals with the psychological-human and religious-ethnic problems of the priest, writer and secondary school teacher Josef Václav Justin Michl (1810–1862), who was looking for recognition of his view of life and retired to the village of Březiny .
  • Z měst i ze samot , 1890 (From the desert towns)

Other representations

  • Z naší národní literatury (From our national literature)
  • Z nejvýchodnějších Čech (From the easternmost parts of Bohemia) - travelogues from the Moravian-Bohemian border area
  • Východočeské lomenice (East Bohemian Gable) - ethnological study
  • O českém kroji (About Bohemian Costumes)
  • Slavín žen českých (Pantheon of Bohemian Women)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Nováková, Teréza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langhausová, Tereza (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer, representative of realism and village prose
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1912
Place of death Prague