Sappho Leontias
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Sappho Leontias (1832–1900) was a Greek writer, feminist, and educationist from Constantinople. She advocated for educational opportunities for Greek women[1][2] and published Euridice, together with her sister Emilia, her own literary journal.[3] She translated Jean Racine's Esther from the French and Aeschylus's The Persians into modern Greek. In 1887, she published a book on home economics, Oikiaki oikonomia pros hrisin ton Parthenagogeion.[4] For many years she was a headmistress for girls' schools in Smyrna and Samos.[5] She became active advocating women's rights, particularly the right to education. She was married to Narlis, a member of the so called Greek Ottoman assembly. They had a daughter called Korinna.
Notes
- ^ Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey: Encounters with Europe, 1850 -1950. I.B.Tauris. 2007. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84511-289-9.
- ^ Rappaport, Helen (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. ABC-CLIO. p. 529. ISBN 978-1-57607-101-4.
- ^ Olsen, Kristin (1994). Chronology of Women's History. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6.
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- ^ Tzanakē, Dēmētra (2009). Women and nationalism in the making of modern Greece: the founding of the kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 70, 82. ISBN 978-0-230-54546-5.
- ^ The International Dictionary of Women's Biography. Continuum. 1982. p. 279. ISBN 0-8264-0192-9.
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- 1832 births
- 1900 deaths
- Greek educational theorists
- Greek feminists
- Greek writers
- Turkish people of Greek descent
- Greeks of the Ottoman Empire
- Constantinopolitan Greeks
- 19th-century Greek people
- 19th-century Greek educators
- Women school principals and headteachers
- 19th-century women educators
- Greek people stubs