| Anna Řeháková | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 16 July 1850 Prague, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 27 May 1937(1937-05-27) (aged 86) Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation(s) | teacher, writer and travel diarist |
Anna Řeháková (16 July 1850 – 27 May 1937) was a Czech teacher, translator, travel writer and novelist.
Life
Řeháková was born in 1850 in Žitnobranská Street, Prague and was one of seven siblings, including her sister Eliška Řeháková, who also became a teacher. Her parents were Václav Řehak, the owner of a grocer's shop, and Maria Řeháková-Zelenská, from Kutná Hora.
Řeháková she was a teacher at the St. Thomas School in Prague for thirty years, contributing to a rise in standards of girls education. Her sister Eliška was also a teacher and they often shared lodgings together and travelled abroad with each other. They both became members of the Association of Czech Female Teachers and the American Club of Czech Ladies.
Alongside teaching, Řeháková was a writer. She contributed to Czech language magazines and translated German women's novels into Czech. She published several travelogue books based on the experiences of her travels in Europe, where she promoted travel to Slovenia and Slovakia. She also wrote works of fiction, including the epistolary novel Andělská srdce (Angelic Hearts, 1905) which featured idealistic representations of patriotic young Czech women who were kind, self-sacrificing and humble.
Řeháková died in 1937 in Prague and was buried with her sister at the Olšany Cemetery.
References
- Ženský svět: list věnovaný zájmum českých pani a divek [Women's World: a magazine dedicated to the interests of Czech ladies and gentlemen] (in Czech). Otto. 1896. p. 76.
- ^ Potměšilová, Magdaléna (21 June 2011). Feminismus a emancipace na prahu 20. století. Anna Řeháková, Vlasta Pittnerová, dvě případové studie [Feminism and emancipation at the threshold of the 20th century. Anna Řeháková, Vlasta Pittnerová, two case studies] (PhD dissertation thesis) (in Czech). Prague: Charles University.
- Bahenská, Marie (2005). Počátky emancipace žen v Čechách: dívčí vzdělávání a ženské spolky v Praze v 19. století (in Czech). Libri. p. 115. ISBN 978-80-86429-48-9.
- Bracewell, Wendy; Drace-Francis, Alex (2008-02-10). A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe. Central European University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-963-386-389-3.
- Novák, Jan Václav (1922). Přehledné dějiny literatury české: od nejstarších dob až do politického osvobození (in Czech). Nákládem R. Prombergra. p. 517.
- Malečková, Jitka (2020-09-29). "The Turk" in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923). BRILL. p. 77. ISBN 978-90-04-44079-1.
- Kunc, Jaroslav (1946). Slovník soudobých českých spisovatelů: krásné písemnictví v letech 1918-45 [Dictionary of Contemporary Czech Writers: Literature in the Years 1918-45, Part 2] (in Czech). Orbis. p. 693.
- ^ Kozár, Aleš (2022). "Obraz Korutan v díle Anny Řehákové" [The image of Carinthia in the work of Anna Řeháková] (in Czech). University of Pardubice. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
- Hawkesworth, C. (2001-04-10). A History of Central European Women's Writing. Springer. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-333-98515-1.
- "Literární archiv Památníku národního písemnictví - Lešehradeum - Řeháková Anna a Eliška". Literární archiv Památníku národního písemnictví (Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature) (in Czech). 2020-12-30. Archived from the original on 30 December 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2025.