Agatha Bacovia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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spouse of George Bacovia
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Mizil, Prahova County, Romania
About Agatha Bacovia
- Agatha Bacovia (born Agatha Grigorescu; March 8, 1895 – October 12, 1981) was a Romanian poet. Born in Mizil, her parents were ?erban Grigorescu and his wife Maria (née Anastasiu).
- Her mother died shortly after giving birth, and her father when she was an adolescent.
- At age 21, she met fellow poet George Bacovia, fourteen years her senior, while walking on Bucharest's Calea Victoriei.
- The couple married twelve years later, in June 1928.
- Agatha functioned as both secretary and nurse to her sickly husband, supporting him with her teacher's salary.She attended the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University, graduating in 1927.
- Her first published work appeared in Scena magazine in 1918; her first poetry book was the 1923 Armonii crepusculare.
- She contributed to Via?a noua, Revista scriitoarelor ?i scriitorilor români, Orizonturi noi, Ateneu, Steaua and România literara, sometimes signing as Agatha Gr.
- and Agata Grozea.
- Her verses were delicately symbolist, of a temperate tonality of her husband's manner.Her books included poetry: Muguri cenu?ii (1926), Pe culmi de gând (1934), Lumina (1965), Cu tine noapte (1969), Versuri (1970), Efluvii (1977) and ?oaptele iubirii (1979); poems and prose: Terase albe.
- Colocviu cu poetul (1938); and memoirs: Bacovia.
- Via?a poetului (1962; second edition: Bacovia.
- Poezie sau destin, 1972), Poezie sau destin.
- Via?a poetei (1971) and Poezie sau destin, III George Bacovia.
- Ultimii sai ani (1981).
- She headed a literary circle named after her husband, as well as a memorial museum dedicated to him.
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