Draga Dejanović

[3] Her father was a well-to-do lawyer who sent Draga to a Serbian grammar school in her native town and, later, to the Vincikov Institute in Timișoara (today in Romania).

Together with her family, she moved from Stara Kanjiza to Bečej, where she met and married a young schoolmaster Mihailo Dejanović against her father's wishes.

[4] Soon afterward, she resumed her education in Pest (Hungary), where she met a group of Serbian students, members of United Serb Youth, which included Laza Kostić, Giga Geršić, and Jovan Turoma.

In Hungary, she began writing poems and called for the United Serb Youth to stand openly behind the demand for equal education for both girls and boys.

The most important of these included her play Deoba Jakšića (The Succession of Jakšić), Svećenik u moralku (The Priest in Venice) and a pedagogical study, Mati (Mother).