Elli Lambridi

[1] Her life and work was celebrated on 8 March 2017 at a talks event in the old Senate chamber of the Parliament of Greece in Athens.

[3] During this time in Zurich, she met Nikos Kazantzakis, with whom she went on a number of journeys through Switzerland between January and September 1918, beginning with a "pilgrimage" to the Upper Engadine in the footsteps of Nietzsche.

In 1926, she travelled to Paris as an envoy of the Greek newspaper Free Press to participate in the 10th Congress of the International Alliance for Women's Suffrage.

Her formal pedagogical career ended when she was forced to leave her position in July 1935, for political reasons, following the failed attempt by Venizelos to regain power.

She attended soirees in Kydhathineon Street, Plaka, Athens (the home of Konstantinos Tsatsos, later President of Greece), and in 1937-1939 presented a series of lectures in philosophy at the cultural association, Askraios.

In 1939, she published an extended critical review of the Odyssey by Kazantzakis in Neohellenica Grammata (Modern Greek Literature) which drew a hostile response.

[10] Lambridi returned to Greece in early 1945, only to be informed that her daughter, who had spent the war with family and friends, had been hit by shrapnel from a British mortar a few days earlier.

[11] Lambridi later published an account of her daughter's life told in parallel to contemporary Greek history entitled Nike (Victory).

[12] As a result of her association with the League, her passport was confiscated by the Greek Government in 1947 and she remained in London for another ten years.

After regaining her passport, she was able to return to Greece in 1960, where she published Nike and continued work on a number of philosophical and literary projects.

In 1964, she became a member of the Société Européenne de Culture and in 1965 she travelled to Russia to participate in the Conference of the International Federation of Democratic Women.

Elli Lambridi's archive is held at ELIA, (ΕΛΙΑ, ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΟ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟ ΑΡΧΕΙΟ), with an analytical index compiled by Yolanda Hatzi.

Elli Lambridi (upper left) with family, Doliana
Elli's grave in Athens