Lyubov Yanovska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lyubov Yanovska

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1861

Place of Birth: Mikolayivka (Borznianskii raion), Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, public figure, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Lyubov Yanovska (???????? ????? ?????????????, 1861 – 1933) was a Ukrainian writer and feminist.The daughter of Oleksandr Shcherbachov, a published author of Russian descent, and a Ukrainian mother, she was born Lyubov Shcherbachova in eastern Ukraine.
Her mother's aunt was married to Panteleimon Kulish.
Her parents separated due to tensions caused by their different ethnic backgrounds.
In 1881, she married Vasyl Yanovsky, a Ukrainian intellectual, and educated herself on Ukrainian culture, literature and history.
Her first short story was published in 1897.
She also wrote novels and plays.In 1905, Yanovska moved to Kiev, where she became involved in literary circles and the women's movement.
After 1916, she was no longer able to write because of health problems aggravated by her work helping women and children left in poverty by World War I.
She suffered a paralytic stroke in 1923 and died ten years later.Her work was translated to English for the collections In the Dark of the Night (1998) and Warm the Children, O Sun (1998).