Müfide Kadri

She lost her mother while still a baby and was adopted by Kadri Bey, a distant relative of some distinction, and his wife, who was childless.

[2] Shortly after, she became a music teacher at Istanbul Girls High School and was later assigned to teach art and embroidery.

Shortly after showing three of her works at a major exhibition held by the Istanbul Opera Society in 1911, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, but it was too late to provide effective treatment and she died the following year.

[3] Kadri Bey felt so much grief, he made an Umrah to Mecca and lived there until forced to leave when Ottoman rule was overthrown.

Her tombstone bears an inscription by the well-known calligrapher, İsmail Hakkı Altunbezer [tr], and her life served as inspiration for the novel Son Eseri (Last Work) by Halide Edib Adıvar, published in serial form in the newspaper Tanin .