Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu was born on 11 March 1866 in Igești, a village in the Bukovina region of the Austrian Empire,[1] which became Austria-Hungary the following year.

Finally, on 30 October 1894, the first women's organization in Romania was approved by the General Assembly, once Reuss Ianculescu had successfully recruited Cornelia Emilian to become president.

[7] Reuss Ianculescu turned to writing and published a string of novels over the next few years, including Voință (Volition, 1902),[1] Spre dezrobire (Towards Emancipation, 1903), Pentru o Idee (For an ideal, 1904), and Menirea femeii (Woman’s Fate, 1906).

[9] With her growing acclaim, after publishing Towards Emancipation, Reuss Ianculescu was spurred to give a series of lectures on women's rights at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.

[3] Dr. Nicolae Minovici and Reuss Ianculescu acted as co-presidents and Constantin G. Dissescu [ro], Minister of Public Instruction served as honorary president.

[13] In 1914, she and a small group of activists, including Maria Gavrilescu, Elena Meissner and Adela Xenopol supported a petition for women’s suffrage to be incorporated into the Constitution of the Kingdom of Romania, which was under debate.

Reuss Ianculescu continued pushing through the various organizations to secure suffrage and the women were partially successful, when in 1929, they won the right to participate in local elections.