Matilda Cugler-Poni

She had a careful education under the guidance of private tutors; this included extensive readings in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Romanian literature.

[2] Her first published work was the poem "Unei tinere fete" ("To a Young Girl"), which appeared in 1867 in Convorbiri Literare, Junimea's journal, which went on to run her verses until 1893.

[2][1] She also submitted writings for Familia, Columna lui Traian, Albina, Tribuna and Viața Românească.

[1] Romantic in the fashion of Heinrich Heine and Nikolaus Lenau, her poems speak of longing, abandonment and betrayal.

She also authored naturalist short stories that dealt with suburban tramps, craftsmen or small merchants from a moralist viewpoint.