Zinaida Ivanova

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Zinaida Sergeevna Ivanova
Born1865
Sychyovsky Uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died24 August 1913 (aged 48–49)
Vladykino (near Moscow), Russian Empire
Pen name'N. Mirovich', 'Zinaida Mirovich'
OccupationAuthor and translator
NationalityRussian
SubjectWomen's rights and education
Zinaida Ivanova at the Suffrage Alliance Congress, London 1909. Taken from a group shot of attendees.

Zinaida Sergeevna Ivanova, (1865 – 24 August 1913) was a Russian

feminist
author and translator, under the pen-names of N. Mirovich and Zinaida Mirovich.

Life

Zinaida Ivanova was born 1865 in

Courses Guerrier for Women in 1897. Shortly afterwards, she married and began to volunteer with the Moscow Commission on the Organization of Home Reading (Moskovskaia Kommissiia po Organizatsii Domashnego Chteniia). Fluent in English, French, German, Norwegian, Finnish and Russian, she began freelance writing and translating. As that dried up in the early years of the first decade of the 20th century, she turned to lecture tours to supplement her income. Ivanova died on 24 August 1913, at Vladykino, a suburb of Moscow.[1]

Activities

She began writing on women's issues, especially with reference to the

Anglophilia allowed her to spend a lot of time in Britain, speaking at women's suffrage rallies in Hyde Park, London, and translating the English philosopher John Stuart Mill's essay, The Subjection of Women, into Russian. Ivanova was one of the founders of the All-Russian Union for Women's Equality (Russian: Всероссийский союз равноправия женщин) during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and joined the All-Russian League for Women's Equality (Russian: Всероссийская лига равноправия женщин) after the Union disbanded in 1908.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ruthchild, pp. 344–45

References

  • Ruthchild, Rochelle Goldberg (2005). "Mirovich, pseudonym for Zinaida Sergeevna Ivanova". In Haan, Francisca de; Daskalova, Krassimira; Loutfi, Anna (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: Central European University Press. .