Julija "Julė" Pranaitytė (26 June 1881 – 29 January 1944) was a Lithuanian newspaper editor, book publisher, and traveler in the Russian Empire and later United States of America.

[1] She translated religious texts from French and wrote travel books on her journeys to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Caucasus (published in 1914), Lithuania (1928), and Spain (1932).

[2] Pranaitytė was the 8th child in a family of well-off Lithuanian farmers in the Panenupiai [lt] village near Griškabūdis, Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland.

At the time, Vaičaitis was a law student at the Saint Petersburg University and they developed a close friendship that culminated in their engagement.

In France, she started contributing to Lithuanian press – she wrote articles for Varpas, Tėvynės sargas, Vienybė Lietuvninkų.

[3] In 1901, during her summer vacation, she cared for her terminally ill fiancé Vaičaitis who had returned to his native Santakai [lt] near Sintautai.

She also visited Samarkand, Bukhara, Merv, Krasnovodsk, Baku, Tbilisi, traveled via the Georgian Military Road to Vladikavkaz.

The reception featured speeches by Adomas Dambrauskas-Jakštas, Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, Kazys Bizauskas, Jonas Vileišis, and others.

[5] Pranaitytė continued to edit Žvaigždė and publish books, but it was not a profitable activity and she suffered severe financial hardship.