Marya Chéliga-Loevy (or Maria Szeliga, 1854 – 2 January 1927) was a Polish writer, playwright, feminist and pacifist.

Mirecka Szeliga was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Jasieniec Solecki, Poland in 1854, at that time a dependency of Russia.

A theme that runs through her writing is that of the single woman struggling for independence and constrained by a hypocritical society.

[4] The Federation's secretary, Aline Valette, founded the weekly tabloid L'Harmonie sociale which first appeared on 15 October 1892 as a means of making contact with working women to understand their concerns.

[6] However, the contributors to the journal, who included Eliska Vincent, Marie Bonnevial and Chéliga-Loevy, were more interested in feminism than socialism.

It told the story of an innocent young girl who suffered various misfortunes and in the end embraced socialism.

[7] In 1896, her play L'ornière (The routine) was staged at Les Independants in Paris, the story of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage.

She and the pioneering woman lawyer Jeanne Chauvin favored giving an unmarried mother the right to seek out the father and demand child support.