Evanthia Kairi
Evanthia Kairi (1799–1866) was a Greek intellectual, playwright, poet and feminist.
Also recorded as E.N. I ex Androu, Ellenis tis
Evanthia Kairi
- Born
- 1799. · Andros.
- Died
- Evanthia Kairi died, sources differ on the date (on 20 August 1866 and in 1861). · Andros.
- Nationality
- Greece.
- Occupation
- writer, poet, playwright and scholar.
- Languages
- Modern Greek.
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Evanthia Kairi was born on the island of Andros in 1799, the seventh child of Asimina Kambanaki and Nikolaos Kairis. Her family moved to Kydonies in 1812 when her brother Theophilos Kairis was hired as a teacher at the town's high school. She acquired fluency in Ancient Greek, French and Italian languages and became an accomplished translator. Ambroise Firmin Didot met her at the age of 17 and later wrote: "Who could suspect, that, in this virtually unknown little town in Asia, a small, miserable house would contain a young woman with such an exceptional education." Kairi wrote the three-act play Nikeratos, which concerns the Third Siege of Missolonghi in 1826. She wrote the play between April and July and published it anonymously in Nafplion that year. It was the first play by a Greek woman to be published. The play was staged in Ermoupolis later that year. Kairi also wrote a short history of Greece.
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- 1.Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature - PDF Free Download. epdf.pub.
- 2.Chapitre anglais titre Kairi, Evanthia (1797–1866) auteurs Anne Commire titre Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia Waterford (Connecticut) Waterford Yorkin Publications 2002 978-0787640651 .
- 3.Article anglais auteur1=Efstratios Theodosiou auteur2=Th. Grammenos auteur3=Vassilios Manimanis Theophilos Kairis: The Creator and Initiator of Theosebism in Greece The European Legacy 9 6 2004 1084-8770 lire en https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233354981_Theophilos_Kairis_the_creator_and_initiator_of_Theosebism_in_Greece1 783-797 .
- 4.Kairi, Evanthia (1797–1866) Encyclopedia.com. encyclopedia.com.
- 5.Article français auteur1=Sophie Coavoux Écriture de l’histoire et littérature féminine grecque au s- XIX Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire Janvier 2019 lire en https://www.cairn.info/revue-clio-femmes-genre-histoire-2019-1-page-221.html pages 221 à 238 .
- 6.Article prénom1=Irini nom1=Rizaki Domaine grec : la production littéraire des femmes au s- XIX Romantisme 24 85 1994 10.3406/roman.1994.6234 lire en https://www.persee.fr/doc/roman_0048-8593_1994_num_24_85_6234 consulté le=2021-02-18 93–95 .
- 7.Modern Greek Theatre: A Quest for Hellenism. McFarland. 2001. 978-0-7864-5012-1.
- 8.Collectif. She had a dream. ifem.pl. 1 octobre 2020.
- 9.Chapitre anglais auteur1= titre Kairi, Evanthia (1799–1866) auteurs Bruce Merry titre Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature Westport (Connecticut) Westport Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Press 2004 pages 544 978-0-313-30813-0 203 .
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