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Reception of Milica’s work can be clearly divided in mainstream (central, canonical) and peripheral (marginal, minor, off-canon) reception, as well as in different periods. Mainstream reception was determined by Jovan Skerli? (1877-1914), a famous critic who evaluated her poetry in 1905 as "dispassionate, dull, cold", but claimed that her diary was a work "which is among the most important, most typical, intimate documents of the romantic spirit in our literature". He defined the very essence of the figure of Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja as a misplaced fascination: "Out of her love for poetry, she had misguided her whole life, and made herself a victim of books and of a higher, literary dream of life." (Skerli? 1905, 333 and 339). The second important mainstream mention of Milica is in a book on the history of Serbian literature by Jovan Dereti? (''Istorija srpske književnosti''), where she is mentioned several times as a figure who "fascinated contemporaries not only because of her poetry, but also because of her unusual beauty... but whose verses... have more moral preaching and patriotic thoughts than real poetry. She expressed better her personality in the diary ''U Fruškoj gori'' than in her poems...' " (Dereti? 1983, 328).<br><br> Reception of Milica’s work can be clearly divided in mainstream (central, canonical) and peripheral (marginal, minor, off-canon) reception, as well as in different periods. Mainstream reception was determined by Jovan Skerli? (1877-1914), a famous critic who evaluated her poetry in 1905 as "dispassionate, dull, cold", but claimed that her diary was a work "which is among the most important, most typical, intimate documents of the romantic spirit in our literature". He defined the very essence of the figure of Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja as a misplaced fascination: "Out of her love for poetry, she had misguided her whole life, and made herself a victim of books and of a higher, literary dream of life." (Skerli? 1905, 333 and 339). The second important mainstream mention of Milica is in a book on the history of Serbian literature by Jovan Dereti? (''Istorija srpske književnosti''), where she is mentioned several times as a figure who "fascinated contemporaries not only because of her poetry, but also because of her unusual beauty... but whose verses... have more moral preaching and patriotic thoughts than real poetry. She expressed better her personality in the diary ''U Fruškoj gori'' than in her poems...' " (Dereti? 1983, 328).<br><br>
Reception of her work by the (mostly) female community begun in 1907 with Spomenica (A Memento), a booklet including some of her letters, poems and texts about her, as well as the poems devoted to her. In a Srpkinja calendar issue from 1913 she is praised as a foremother of Serbian women writers. [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3837 Anica Savi?-Rebac], an outstanding female Hellenist, spoke at a memorial meeting in Milica’s honour organized by female students in Belgrade in 1926. Milica’s diary was reprinted in 1985 by the publishing house "Prosveta" in Belgrade; her [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works/show/9677 correspondence with Vuk and Mina Karadži?] (''Prepiska Milice Stojadinovi? Srpkinje sa Vukom i Minom'') was published in 1987 (Književna zajednica Novog Sada); and four years later her [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works/show/9681 other letters to contemporaries] were published in a book (all three books were edited and prepared by Radmila Giki?). A selection of Milica’s poems was published in 1995 (selection and foreword by Danica Vujkov, Papirus, Novi Sad). Also, a traditional "Pilgrimage to Milica" has been held every year. Tatjana Rosi? wrote a section about Milica’s diary in her MA thesis on Romantic diaries, published in 1994. In 1996 a novel by Milica Mi?i? Dimovska, a contemporary author, appeared. Around and after 2000, the reception of Milica Stojadinovi?’s work gained new impetus from women’s studies in the works by Celia Hawkesworth, [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Magdalena_Koch Magdalena Koch], Slavica Garonja and [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Biljana_Doj%C4%8Dinovi%C4%87_Ne%C5%A1i%C4%87 Biljana Doj?inovi?]. Reception of her work by the (mostly) female community begun in 1907 with Spomenica (A Memento), a booklet including some of her letters, poems and texts about her, as well as the poems devoted to her. In a Srpkinja calendar issue from 1913 she is praised as a foremother of Serbian women writers. [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/3837 Anica Savi?-Rebac], an outstanding female Hellenist, spoke at a memorial meeting in Milica’s honour organized by female students in Belgrade in 1926. Milica’s diary was reprinted in 1985 by the publishing house "Prosveta" in Belgrade; her [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works/show/9677 correspondence with Vuk and Mina Karadži?] (''Prepiska Milice Stojadinovi? Srpkinje sa Vukom i Minom'') was published in 1987 (Književna zajednica Novog Sada); and four years later her [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works/show/9681 other letters to contemporaries] were published in a book (all three books were edited and prepared by Radmila Giki?). A selection of Milica’s poems was published in 1995 (selection and foreword by Danica Vujkov, Papirus, Novi Sad). Also, a traditional "Pilgrimage to Milica" has been held every year. Tatjana Rosi? wrote a section about Milica’s diary in her MA thesis on Romantic diaries, published in 1994. In 1996 a novel by Milica Mi?i? Dimovska, a contemporary author, appeared. Around and after 2000, the reception of Milica Stojadinovi?’s work gained new impetus from women’s studies in the works by Celia Hawkesworth, [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Magdalena_Koch Magdalena Koch], Slavica Garonja and [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Biljana_Doj%C4%8Dinovi%C4%87_Ne%C5%A1i%C4%87 Biljana Doj?inovi?].
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Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja, Serbian writer, 1828-1878



By Biljana Doj?inovi?, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja, "The Fairy from Vrdnik", was born in Bukovac, Srem (then Austrian empire), in 1828 or 1830. In her youth she became famous for her patriotic poetry, which was concerned with national awakening. Her first book of poems, Pesme (Poems), was published in 1850, and, later on, two expanded editions were issued in 1855 and 1869. She also published a diary titled U Fruškoj gori 1854 (In Fruška Gora in 1854), in three volumes, issued in 1861, 1862 and 1866. She spoke and translated from German. Milica is also considered the first woman war reporter, as she wrote a report about bombing of Belgrade in 1862. She died in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1878, forgotten and poor.

Reception of Milica’s work can be clearly divided in mainstream (central, canonical) and peripheral (marginal, minor, off-canon) reception, as well as in different periods. Mainstream reception was determined by Jovan Skerli? (1877-1914), a famous critic who evaluated her poetry in 1905 as "dispassionate, dull, cold", but claimed that her diary was a work "which is among the most important, most typical, intimate documents of the romantic spirit in our literature". He defined the very essence of the figure of Milica Stojadinovi? Srpkinja as a misplaced fascination: "Out of her love for poetry, she had misguided her whole life, and made herself a victim of books and of a higher, literary dream of life." (Skerli? 1905, 333 and 339). The second important mainstream mention of Milica is in a book on the history of Serbian literature by Jovan Dereti? (Istorija srpske književnosti), where she is mentioned several times as a figure who "fascinated contemporaries not only because of her poetry, but also because of her unusual beauty... but whose verses... have more moral preaching and patriotic thoughts than real poetry. She expressed better her personality in the diary U Fruškoj gori than in her poems...' " (Dereti? 1983, 328).

Reception of her work by the (mostly) female community begun in 1907 with Spomenica (A Memento), a booklet including some of her letters, poems and texts about her, as well as the poems devoted to her. In a Srpkinja calendar issue from 1913 she is praised as a foremother of Serbian women writers. Anica Savi?-Rebac, an outstanding female Hellenist, spoke at a memorial meeting in Milica’s honour organized by female students in Belgrade in 1926. Milica’s diary was reprinted in 1985 by the publishing house "Prosveta" in Belgrade; her correspondence with Vuk and Mina Karadži? (Prepiska Milice Stojadinovi? Srpkinje sa Vukom i Minom) was published in 1987 (Književna zajednica Novog Sada); and four years later her other letters to contemporaries were published in a book (all three books were edited and prepared by Radmila Giki?). A selection of Milica’s poems was published in 1995 (selection and foreword by Danica Vujkov, Papirus, Novi Sad). Also, a traditional "Pilgrimage to Milica" has been held every year. Tatjana Rosi? wrote a section about Milica’s diary in her MA thesis on Romantic diaries, published in 1994. In 1996 a novel by Milica Mi?i? Dimovska, a contemporary author, appeared. Around and after 2000, the reception of Milica Stojadinovi?’s work gained new impetus from women’s studies in the works by Celia Hawkesworth, Magdalena Koch, Slavica Garonja and Biljana Doj?inovi?.




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