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Author: Ghica, Elena

Pseudonyms:D'Istria, Dora
Spouse/other names:Koltsov-Massalsky | Ghika | Koltsova-Massalskaya, Helena
Gender:female
Year of birth:1828
Year of death:1888
About her personal situation:Standardizingsvdfeb14 Origin • Place of birth : Bucharest • Place(s) of residence: Prussia | Russia | Switzerland | Italy • Place of death: Florence National identity • Nationality : Not yet checked • First language(s) : Not yet checked Marital status : - Married | separated Number of children : Not yet checked Social class : - Aristocracy by birth - Aristocracy by marriage Education: - Not yet checked Religion - Not yet checked

Countries:France - Italy - Russia - Switzerland - Romania
Languages:French
Relations to other authors: Friend of Bremer, Fredrika
Friend of La Ramée, Maria Louise de

Daughter of Faca, Ecaterina
Acquaintance of Papadopoulou, Arsinoi

About her professional situation:Standardizingsvdfeb14 Authorial attribution: - Not yet checked Profession(s) and other activities : - journalist - translator from ancient greek - travel writer Language(s) in which she wrote : - French Collaboration/connections with male authors : - Not yet checked Financial aspects of her career: - Not yet checked Memberships: - Not yet checked
Elements of bibliography:MENTIONED IN: - Dictionnaire des contemporains, Vapereau, Louis Gustave: Hachette, Paris, 1858, p. 553. - Bartolomeo Cecchetti, Dora d’Istria (Notizie biografiche), Venezia, 1868 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "[...] devoted to the causes of national minorities " - McFadden, Golden Cables: Matrix, 189 - Dicționarul general al literaturii române, București, Ed. Univers Enciclopedic, 2004, pp. 719-721 - De Haan a.o., A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms. CEU press, 2006. Cf. - Cecchetti, Bibliografia della Principessa Elena Ghika - Dora d’Istria, Venezzia, 1868; Firenze, 1873 - Angelo de Gubernatis Dizionario de scrittori contemporanei, Firenze, 1879,p. 386 - Idem, « Dora d’Istria », Revue internationale, Rome, t. XXI, 10 janvier 1889, pp. 58-74 - Paolo Mantegazza, Le donne del mio tempo. Una principessa, Roma, 1905 - Antonio d’Alessandri, Il pensiero e l’opera di Dora d’Istria fra Oriente Europeo e Italia ( pref. Francesco Guida), Roma, Gangemi, 2007 - Petre Ciureanu, « Dora d’Istria », Revue des études roumaines, no. 2, 1954, Paris, pp. 169-192; no. 3-4, 1957, pp. 82-110. - Armand Pommier, Profils contemporains – Mme la Comtesse Dora d’Istria (Paris: Lécrivain Toubon, 1863) - Cristia Maksutovici and Georgeta Penelea-Filitti, Dora d’Istria (Bucuresti: Criterion, 2004) - Antonio D'Alessandri, "Il pensiero e l’opera di Dora d’Istria fra Oriente europeo e Italia", Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano, Biblioteca scientifica, Serie II: Memorie, vol. 54, Roma, 2007.
Websites: Wikipedia on her
Wikipedia on her (in English)
Enciclopedia Romaniei (in Romanian)
Extracts from the book "Blouse Roumaine"
NEWW contribution Istanbul 2012 I. Mihaila
NEWW contribution Madrid 2010 I. Mihaila
NEWW portraits of authors

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Works written by this author

E 1 La nationalité albanaise d’après les chants populaires (1860)
E 2 Des femmes par une femme (1869)
E 3 Excursions en Roumélie et en Morée (1863)
E 4 Ghica, Elena, the author (1860)
E 5 Gli Albanesi in Rumenia, storia dei principi Ghika nei secoli XVII, XVIII e XIX su documenti inediti degli archivii di Venezia Vienna, Parigi, Berlino, Constantinopoli, etc. Traduzione dal Francese di B. Cecchetti (1877)
E 6 Gli eroi della Rumenia (1877)
E 7 La Poésie populaire des Magyars. (1870)
E 8 La Suisse allemande et l’ascension du Moench (1856)
E 9 La Vénitienne (1865)
E 10 La nationalité hellénique d’après les chants populaires (1867)
E 11 La nationalité roumaine d’après les chants populaires (1859)
E 12 La poésie des Ottomans (1873)
E 13 La vie monastique dans l’Église orientale (1855)
E 14 Le Surnaturel dans le monde végétal (1879)
E 15 Les Femmes en Occident (1861)
E 16 Les Femmes en Orient. I. La Péninsule orientale. II. La Russie (1859)

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