Adela Milčinović

Adela Milčinović
Born	(1878-01-14)14 January 1878 Sisak, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Croatia)
Died	1968 (aged 90) New York City, United States
Occupation	Author, journalist, critic, and feminist
Nationality	Croatian
Subject	Women's rights and education

Adela Milčinović, née Kamenić (14 January 1878 – 1968), was a Croatian feminist author, critic and suffragette.

Life

Adela Milčinović was born in Sisak, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Croatia) on 14 January 1878, her mother Ludmilla's illegitimate daughter. She received her teacher's qualification from the Sisters of Charity convent in Zagreb in 1896. Three years later, she married Andrija Milčinović, a teacher and student at the University of Zagreb and they moved to Zdenci where Andrija had a teaching job. They spent the years 1902–04 living abroad in Germany and returned to Zagreb in 1904 where her husband finished his degree and got a job with the Museum of Arts and Crafts. They had two daughters and divorced around 1915. Milčinović spent World War I working at the occupation newspaper Belgrade News (Beogradske Novine). She returned to Zagreb in 1918 where she was a secretary at the National Council of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (Narodno vijeće Države Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba). She moved to New York City during the 1930s and remained there until her death in 1968.

Activities

Milčinović wrote a letter in Domestic Fireside (Croatian: Domaće ognjište) in which "she presented a well-formulated feminist critique, denouncing the absence of women from public life and outlining her vision of a new aesthetics." While living in Germany, the Milčinovićs published a short-story collection together, Under the Barrage (Pod branom), in 1903 and Adela wrote for the Zagreb newspaper The Nation (Croatian: Narodne novine).

References

• Jakobović-Fribec, Slavica (2005). "Adela Milčinović". In Haan, Francisca de; Daskalova, Krassimira; Loutfi, Anna (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: Central European University Press. ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4.

Further reading

• Bogner Šaban, Antonija (April 2006). "Adela Milčinović: Uspjeh gospodina Crownenshielda" (PDF). Dani Hvarskoga kazališta (in Croatian). 32 (1). Split: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Književni krug Split: 281–296. Retrieved 8 November 2017.