Didžiulienė (née Nitaitė) was born on 3 May 1856 into a Lithuanian family in Robliai [lt] in the present-day Rokiškis District Municipality.

[3] In her memoirs, Didžiulienė wrote that in 1875 she completed operetta Piršlės ir veselijos (Matchmaking and Weddings) based on Lithuanian folk songs, but the work has not survived.

[6] Didžiulienė also wrote fiction and articles wis.th practical advice for Lithuanian periodicals Varpas and Ūkininkas.

[8] In summer, their house was visited by various Lithuanian activists, including Antanas Baranauskas, Jonas Jablonskis, Motiejus Čepas [lt], Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis, Liudvikas Vaineikis.

[11] In 1896, Didžiulienė moved to Mitau (Jelgava) in the present-day Latvia so that her children could receive formal education.

[12] In fall 1896, several of her tenants, including Antanas Smetona, protested the requirement to pray in Russian at school.

Her daughter Vanda married communist activist Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas and was also imprisoned and in hiding from the Tsarist police.

[1] In spring 1915, as World War I frontlines were approaching, Didžiulienė decided to visit her daughter Vanda who lived in Yalta.

Didžiulienė worked as a nurse in a military hospital and as an administrator of a Lithuanian sanatorium for tuberculosis patients.

She wrote the play Give me Freedom about women of the Crimean Tatars which was translated from Russian to Tatr and staged by a local theater.

[23] In 2007, the public library of the Anykščiai District Municipality was renamed after Stanislovas Didžiulis and his wife Didžiulienė.

[1] Due to her busy family and social life, Didžiulienė never had an opportunity to devote substantial amount of time to writing.

Her works serve a clear purpose to propagate the ideas of the Lithuanian National Revival and are realist and often didactic.

However, he weds a daughter of Polonized nobles, becomes ashamed of his low birth, and ceases his work for the public good.

[24] Similar theme of temptations faced by young activists is explored in the short story Dėl tėvynės!

[24] In Didžiulienės' works, many women, particularly those that are uneducated or of foreign birth, are depicted negatively as a force corrupting ideals of young Lithuanian men.

The most vivid of such characters is Uršulė Bitautienė from the short story Ne pagal Jurgio kepurė[24] (first published in 1996).

[1] Her longest and one of the most important stories is Atgajėlė (written around 1895, first published in 1904) which tells the sentimental love story of Amelija, daughter of poor Polonized nobles, who rejects advances of a vainglorious noble and marries Jonas, an educated son of a local farmer.

[19] Didžiulienė wrote several plays, including comedies Lietuvaitės (Lithuanian Women) and Paskubėjo (Hastened) and dramas Katei juokai – pelei verksmai (Cat Laughs – Mouse Cries) and Vakaruškos (Parties).

[19] They were likely written in Mitau for the Lithuanian amateur theater and as such feature vivid characters, dynamic dialogue, clear conflicts.