Reba Ray
Reba Ray (1876 – 1957) was an Indian Odia poet educationist and administrator. Best known as one of the earliest Odia women writers, she was also founder of Model Girls' School, Cuttack. Her short story Sanyasi is considered earliest modern Odia short story by a woman writer.
Reba Ray
- Name
- Reba Ray
- Died
- 7 August 1957
- Occupation
- Educationist, Poet
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Languages
- Odia
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Reba Ray (1876 – 1957) was an Indian Odia poet educationist and administrator. Best known as one of the earliest Odia women writers, she was also founder of Model Girls' School, Cuttack. Her short story Sanyasi is considered earliest modern Odia short story by a woman writer.
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Reba Ray (1876–1957) was a poet and writer, a national of the British Raj and the Dominion of India. The poet was born in Cuttack district. Languages used include Odia.
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She was niece of renowned Odia poet Madhusudan Rao.
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• Name — Reba Ray • Died — 7 August 1957 • Occupation — Educationist, Poet • Language — Odia • Notable Works — Anjali
Personal life
Personal life
She was born on 1857. Many of her early life details are not known. She was married to well known writer Sadhu Charan Ray.
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Career
She was one of the pioneers for women's education. She established Model Girls' School at Cuttack in 1906. It had provision for teaching music and sewing. She founded a woman's magazine Asha in 1892. She also founded Odisha's first children's magazine Prabhat. Her stories were published in Utkal Sahitya magazine as well. She set up another school at Guhali, Jajpur.
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• Anjali, 1903 • Shakuntala, 1904
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- 1.Mohanty, S. Early Women's Writings in Orissa, 1898-1950: A Lost Tradition. SAGE Publications. 85. 2005. 978-0-7619-3308-3.
- 2.Venkatesh, M.R. A rich anthology of stories from Odisha mirror many worlds in one text. Deccan Chronicle. 2019-12-09.
- 3.Orissa History Congress. Session. Proceedings of the Annual Session. The Congress. 81. 1979.
- 4.Lal, M. Signifying the Self: Women and Literature. Macmillan India. 54. 2004. 978-1-4039-2405-6.
- 5.It's a tough job to run an Oriya children's magazine. The New Indian Express. 2009-01-06.
- 6.Mohanty, S. Early Women's Writings in Orissa, 1898-1950: A Lost Tradition. SAGE Publications. 2005. 978-0-7619-3308-3.
- 7.Mohanty, Maheswar. Prabhata o Reba Ray. Sishu Sahitya Lekhaka Sammilani. 6. 2009.
- 8.Choudhury, Ramadevi. Journey of Life. Indian Literature. 3. 287. 39–51. 2015. 44478661.
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