Vida Jeraj, born Frančiška Vovk, (31 March 1860 – 1 May 1932) was a Slovene poet and lyricist. Born in Zagorice (now Bled), she travelled extensively through the Austrian Empire and, later the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, living in Ljubljana, Vienna and Kassel, initially with her mother and then later her husband, the violinist Karl Jeraj. After graduating as a teacher in 1895, she taught in primary schools. Much of her work was tragic, particularly following the death of her son in 1906, and her poetry covered a wide range of topics, and was influenced by literary modernism, Biblica
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Vida Jeraj, born Frančiška Vovk, (31 March 1860 – 1 May 1932) was a Slovene poet and lyricist. Born in Zagorice (now Bled), she travelled extensively through the Austrian Empire and, later the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, living in Ljubljana, Vienna and Kassel, initially with her mother and then later her husband, the violinist Karl Jeraj. After graduating as a teacher in 1895, she taught in primary schools. Much of her work was tragic, particularly following the death of her son in 1906, and her poetry covered a wide range of topics, and was influenced by literary modernism, Biblical themes and fairy tales. In the aftermath of the First World War, she helped run a charity for blind soldiers. She also wrote poetry for children, and had some of her work set to music by her husband. In the 1920s, she returned to Ljubljana and was active in the Drustva Slovenkih Leposlovcev Socialnogospodarskega in Kulturnega Zenskega (Women's Social, Economic and Cultural Association of Slovenia), and died in 1932.
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Biography Jeraj was born in Zagorice (now Bled) in the Austrian Empire on 31 March 1860, the daughter of France Vovk and Neza, a native of Kropa. Her father was the nephew of the poet France Prešeren. He could be violent when drunk, which, combined her mother's temperament, meant that, although she was beloved as their only surviving child, her early life was full of tension. The family lost their estate due to debt and moved to Ljubljana, where her mother made a living as a cook for workers of the railway. She and her mother subsequently moved to Vienna and Kassel, leaving her father behind. At age 26, she met Karl Jeraj, a violinist with the Vienna Court Opera. They married and she moved back to Vienna. Jeraj returned to Ljubljana to attend the teacher training college, graduating in 1895. She then took a job as a primary school teacher. She returned to Vienna and continued to write, including an increasing output for children. As part of the cultural scene in the Imperial capital, Jeraj wrote poetry that drew on her childhood experience of uncertainty. Her style reflected the literary modernism that was common at the time and was…
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Selected writing Slutnje (Premonitions), Slovenka, 1897. Spomin ob Savi (Memory of the Savi). 1897. Mrtvemu pesniku Aleksandrovu I, II, (To the Dead Poet Aleksandrovu), 1901. Balada I (Ballad 1), 1904. Tam zunaj, tam daleč je moja mladost, Pojdi v sever (Out there, far away is my youth, Go north). 1908. Pri mojih durih čaka smrt (Death awaits at the door). 1908. Jezero mojih dni (Lake of my days), 1914.
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Bibliography Jensterle-Doležal, Alenka (2019). "Pri mojih durih čaka smrt: Osupljiva privlačnost niča. Dekadentne tendence v poeziji Vide Jeraj" [Death awaits at my doors: Stunning attraction of nothingness. Decadent tendencies in the poetry of Vida Jeraj]. Slavia Centralis (in Slovenian). 12 (2): 5–17. Hawksworth, Celia (2001). A History of Central European Women's Writing. New York: Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-33398-515-1. Higonnet, Margaret R. (2004). "Women Writers and the War Experience: 1918 as Transition". In Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (eds.). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp. 191–201. ISBN 978-9-02723-452-0. Higonnet, Margaret R. (2007). "The Great War and the Female Elegy: Female Lamentation and Silence in Global Contexts". The Global South. 1 (1): 120–136. Medved, Drago (2013). Slowenisches Wien [Slovenian Vienna] (in Slovenian). Celje: Grafika Gracer. ISBN 978-9-61648-761-0. Šelih, Alenka; Antić, Milica G.; Puhar, Alenka; Rener, Tanja; Šuklje, Rapa; Verginella, Marta (2012). Pozabljena polovica: portreti žensk 19. in 20. stoletja na Slovenskem [The Forgotten Half: Portraits of Women of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Slovenia] (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: SAZU. ISBN 978-9-61668-201-5.
