Jagoda Truhelka

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Jagoda Truhelka
Truhelka, c. 1916
Born(1864-02-05)5 February 1864
Osijek, Kingdom of Slavonia, Austrian Empire
(now Osijek, Croatia)
Died17 December 1957(1957-12-17) (aged 93)
Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
(now Zagreb, Croatia)
Occupation(s)writer, novelist, teacher
RelativesĆiro Truhelka (brother)

Jagoda Truhelka (Croatian pronunciation:

headmistress in Osijek, Zagreb, Gospić, Banja Luka, and Sarajevo. Her novels are notable for focusing on female characters and discussing women's rights, but Truhelka is best known for her children's literature
.

Family and education

Truhelka was born on 5 February 1864 in

Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, with her mother and younger brothers, Dragoš and Ćiro Truhelka.[2]

Truhelka continued her education in Zagreb, intending to follow in her father's footsteps. She received her teacher's diploma in 1882.[2]

Teaching career

Truhelka got her first job soon after receiving her diploma in 1882, teaching girls in Osijek. Following further education, she was appointed headmistress of a girls' school in

education of women by enrolling, along with three other women, into the University of Zagreb. During this period, Truhelka was influenced by the ideas of individualism and universal freedom, as well as by the promotion of education and women's rights.[3]

In 1901, Truhelka moved to

Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she worked as a girls' school headmistress for ten years. During her subsequent work as teacher in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital, Truhelka was particularly active in promoting women's rights.[2]

Women's writer and activist

Sculpture in Osijek

Truhelka considered herself foremostly an educator, emphasizing her education and training; writing was something that "came on its own, unintended, unprepared, and unassuming".

short stories, and two novels. In 1900, Jagoda Truhelka and Marija Jambrišak launched the magazine Domaće ognjište (The Home Hearth), which attracted significant contribution from other women writers. Antun Gustav Matoš said that the magazine was of "inestimable importance" because it was "not only a pedagogical paper but also a women's paper".[3] Truhelka was at that time at the centre of a network of female activists in Zagreb, and ran a joint household with one of those women for 30 years.[5]

As her early prose revolved around women and the relations between the sexes, Truhelka published a part of her stories in the magazines

feminist and who is intellectually superior to others[6] rather than simply idealized or demonized.[3]

Truhelka published several installments of a

antiheroine in Croatian literature.[3] The novel, in which she follows both traditional and modernist approaches, reveals that Truhelka was inspired by August Šenoa.[4]

Children's literature

Later in her career, as the modernism faded, Truhelka focused on

autobiographical elements.[3][4] Zlatni danci was published in 1918.[4] Upon her retirement in August 1923, Truhelka returned to Zagreb, by then the second largest city of Yugoslavia, and withdrew from public life.[2] She continued her work on children's literature into advanced old age.[3] Bogorodičine trešnje and Crni i bijeli dani were published in 1929 and 1944 respectively. These two, along with Zlatni danci, place her among the most prominent children's writers of Croatia, second only to Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić.[4] Portraying the everyday lives of children, Truhelka strived to include ethical, religious and patriotic lessons.[6]

In her retirement, Truhelka rarely made reference to women's rights and notable women. She died in Zagreb on 17 December 1957, aged 93.[2] She remains best known for her children's literature.[6]

References

  1. ^ Slobodan Ž. Marković (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia: Matica srpska. p. 544.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Vinaj, Marina (December 2007), "Oživljeni svijet Jagode Truhelke", Muzeologija (in Serbo-Croatian) (43/44), Muzej Slavonije: 162–166
  3. ^
    ISBN 033398515X
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-9537760397
  5. ISBN 978-1351863438
  6. ^ a b c d e f Truhelka, Jagoda (in Serbo-Croatian), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža
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