[1] At a young age, she became inspired by revolutionary ideas of Rostom and his wife Lisa Melik Shahnazarian, who were operating an Armenian school there.

[2][3] When she returned home to Edirne, at sixteen, she met Sargis Barseghyan [hy; fr],[4] an intellectual and member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, also known as the Dashnaktsutyun.

[2][5] After the massacre of intellectuals, Barseghyan took her son and fled to Sofia, Bulgaria,[8] but soon settled in Tbilisi and resumed teaching.

Committed to serving on behalf of the Armenian people, she chose to live in exile in Paris, where she worked at the Nansen International Office for Refugees and continued her literary endeavors.

[10] In 2016, Hakob Palian, writer and journalist, edited a new publication of them for Hamazkayin Publishing House of Beirut in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Her works, but especially her memoir, are significant representations of the historic interwar period in Armenia's struggle and the role women played in protecting the nation and people in their quest for independence.