Rokiškis (Lithuania) 24-04-1856 ‖ Griezioneles, Anyksciai (Lithuania) 25-10-1925
Period of activity: From 1892 until 1926
Geographical classification: Europe > Lithuania
Socio-cultural movements
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Realism (art and literature)
Groups by dedication
Writers
Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
Context of feminine creation
Liudvika Didžiulienė is known not only as the first Lithuanian woman prose writer, and publicist but also as an educator and collector of Lithuania folklore. The most important of her activities were the fostering of patriotism, the development of national culture, morals, and humanism.
Other Lithuanian women writers of the same period were Žemaitė, Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, Lazdynų Pelėda and Šatrijos Ragana.
In her literature works, Liudvika Didžiulienė-Žmona (Wife) promoted the ideas of national revival, elevated nationality and condemned talked a lot about education for all people of Lithuania. The works mock the life of the manors of that time, the stagnation of the intelligentsia, and present many images of peasant life.
Born in 1856, she studied privately and started reading and writing early. In 1876 she married Stanislovas Didžiulis, a descendant of an old family of Lithuanian nobility, a bibliographer, a collector of folklore, and an activist in Lithuanian society. Antanas Baranauskas, Jonas Jablonskis and other enlightened people of that time visited her house. This also encouraged Didžiulienė to start a writing career, although she thought that the most important thing in her life was the vocation of a woman, wife and mother. This can also be seen in the nickname she has chosen.
Ironically, she considered her primary task in life to be a wife and mother, but she was involved in civic activities and was a famous public figure. She himself distributed the Lithuanian press banned by the tsar and organized its distribution in Aukštaitija (one of the regions in Lithuania).
1896–1907 While living in Mintauja with her family, she founded a dormitory for Lithuanian school children - a pension and took care of Lithuanian schoolchildren. While studying in Mintauja, Antanas Smetona, Juozas Vaičkus, Juozas Tūbelis, Konstantinas Jasiukaitis, Justinas Vienožinskis and other most famous figures of Lithuanian culture, society, and politics lived in this pension.
Paulius Saulius, The first Lithuanian publicist Liudvika Didžiulienė-Žmona raised 8 children with her husband but rests in different graves, 2020 (https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000120926/pirmoji-lietuvos-publiciste-liudvika-didziuliene-zmona-su-vyru-uzaugino-8-vaikus-bet-ilsisi-skirtinguose-kapuose)
Pasaulio Anykštėnų bendrija, Liudvika Didžiulienė, 2021 (https://www.anykstenai.lt/asmenys/asm.php?id=85)
Lithuanian Literature.
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