Pavlina Pajk

Pavlina Pajk, née Doljak (9 April 1854 – 1 June 1901) was an early Slovene poet, novelist, essay writer and biographer.

[1] Born in Pavia, then part of the Austrian Empire, Pajk's parents were Slovenes.

She first received an Italian education but after her parents had died, when she was 16 she moved to stay with her uncle in Solkan, Slovenia.

They arranged the wedding before they even met (through letters) and when they got married they moved first to Maribor then to Austria where she lived for the next 20 years.

In 1884, she wrote an article advocating the elementary schooling of women of all social classes.