Žemaitė
Sign in to savethumb|Notes of Žemaitė Žemaitė (, , "Samogitian woman") was the pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė ( – 7 December 1921). She was a Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, democrat and lecturer. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival. She wrote about peasant life in the style best described as realism.
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- Born
- 1845
- Died
- 1921
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Razkazi
- Rudens vakaras
- Marti
- Žemaitės Raštai karės metu
- Autobiografija
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Key facts
- Writer.name
- Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė
- Writer.image
- Žemaitė su A. ir A. Bulotomis (cropped).jpg
- Writer.caption
- Žemaitė in ~1916
- Writer.birth_place
- , Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire
- Writer.death_place
- Marijampolė, Suvalkija, Lithuania
- Writer.occupation
- writer
- Writer.language
- Lithuanian
- Writer.spouse
- Laurynas Žymantas
- Writer.signature
- Žemaitė parašas.svg
- Writer.parents
- Antanas Beniuševičius Julijana Sciepuraitė
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Key dates
- Born
- 4 June 1845
- Died
- 7 December 1921
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Lithuania
- Place of death
- Marijampolė
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Lithuanian
- Image
- Žemaitė su A. ir A. Bulotomis (cropped).jpg
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- Lithuanian
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thumb|Notes of Žemaitė Žemaitė (, , "Samogitian woman") was the pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė ( – 7 December 1921). She was a Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, democrat and lecturer. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival. She wrote about peasant life in the style best described as realism.
==Life== Žemaitė was born in a manor house near Plungė in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire. Her father Antanas Beniuševičius (died 1878) served as a manor steward and her mother Julijana Sciepuraitė (died 1874) was a housekeeper. Žemaitė had three sisters.