Růžena Svobodová

When she was 12, her father died, and the surviving widow and children moved out of the city, but Růžena was sent to schools in Prague.

[1] Růžena Svobodová wrote short stories and novels, often focused on female characters' lives, including Na písčité půdě (On the Sandy Soil, 1895), Ztroskotáno (Wrecked, 1896), Přetížený klas (Overloaded Ear, 1896), Zamotaná vlákna (Wrapped Fibers, 1899), Milenky (1902), Pěšinkami srdce (The Heart Walks, 1902), Plameny a plaménky (Flames and Cleanses, 1905), Marné lásky (Merciful Love, 1906), Černí myslivci (Black Foresters, 1908), Posvátné jaro (Sacred Spring, 1912), Po svatební hostině (The Wedding Feast, 1916), Hrdinné a bezmocné dětství (Heroes and Helpless Childhood, 1920) and Ráj (Paradise, 1920).

"[2] Another scholar described her as "a writer of powerful feminist short fiction" who later became "a sentimentalizing, emptily philosophizing novelist, crushing her natural sensualism under buckets of pretty flowers.

She also hosted a literary salon, attracting artists as well as writers, including actress Hana Kvapilová, Božena Benešová, Marie Pujmanová, Antonín Sova, and Vilém Mrštík.

Růžena Čápová married František Xaver Svoboda, a poet and bank official.