Nataliya Kobrynska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Ukrainian writer
Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1855
Place of Birth: Beleluia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 22-Jan-1920
Profession: writer, feminist
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Nataliya Kobrynska
- Nataliya Kobrynska (June 8, 1851 – January 22, 1920) was a Ukrainian writer, socialist feminist, and activist.The daughter of Reverend Ivan Ozarkevych, a priest who was later elected to the Austrian Parliament., and Teofilia Okunevska, she was born Nataliya Ozarkevych in the village of Beleluia in the Halychyna province of Galicia.
- At that time, women were not allowed to pursue education beyond the elementary level and so she was mainly educated at home.
- She studied several languages: German, French, Polish and Russian and read literature from various counties.
- In 1871, she married Theofil Kobrynsky.
- He died a few years later and she was forced to return to Bolekhiv to live with her parents.Kobrynska went to Vienna with her father, where she met Ivan Franko; Franko encouraged her to take on the task of improving the status of Ukrainian women and to encourage them to seek equality with men.
- In 1884, she organized the Tovarystvo Rus'kykh Zhinok (Association of Ukrainian Women) to educate women by exposing them to literature and by promoting discussions on women's rights.
- In 1890, she was part of a delegation that lobbied the Minister of Education to allow women to attend university.
- She also advocated universal suffrage, day care and communal kitchens.She wrote her first short story "Shuminska" (later known as The Spirit of the Times, in 1883; the following year, she wrote a novella For a Piece of Bread.
- In 1887, with Olena Pchilka, she edited Pershy vinok (The First Garland), a collection of writing by Ukrainian women.
- Kobrynska's publishing house Zhinocha Sprava (Women’s Cause) produced three issues of a women's almanac called Nasha dolya (Our Fate).She died in Bolekhiv in 1920.Her work was translated to English for the collections The Spirit of the Times (1998) and Warm the Children, O Sun (1998).
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