Terézia Vansová

Terézia Zuzana Vansová née Medvecká, pseudonyms Johanka Georgiadesová, Milka Žartovnická and Nemophila (1857–1942)[1] was a pioneering Slovak female writer and editor during the period of realism.

[1] In 1875, on marrying the Lutheran pastor Ján Vansa, the couple moved to Lomnička where Vansová began writing poetry in both German and Slovak.

Her first work Moje piesne (My Songs, 1875) was a rather awkward collection of poems in German but was followed with more mature verses published in the local Karpathenpost.

[2] With the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918, she edited Slovenská žena (Slovak Woman) from 1920 to 1923, although she no longer considered it to be "her magazine" as Dennica had been.

[1] Today Vansová is remembered for her romantic novels which were popular with schoolgirls for several decades but are no longer widely read.