Sappho Leontias

Sappho Leontias (1832–1900) was a Greek writer, feminist, and educationist from Constantinople. She advocated for educational opportunities for Greek women[1][2] and published Eurydice, together with her sister Emilia, her own journal.[3] She translated Jean Racine's Esther from the French and Aeschylus's The Persians into modern Greek. In 1887, she published a book on home economics, Oikiaki oikonomia pros hrisin ton Parthenagogeion.[4] For many years she was a headmistress for girls' schools in Smyrna and Samos.[5] She became active advocating women's rights, particularly the right to education. She was married to Narlis, a member of the so called Greek Ottoman assembly. They had a daughter called Korinna.

Notes
  1. Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey: Encounters with Europe, 1850 -1950. I.B.Tauris. 2007. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84511-289-9.
  2. Rappaport, Helen (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. ABC-CLIO. p. 529. ISBN 978-1-57607-101-4.
  3. Olsen, Kristin (1994). Chronology of Women's History. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6. sappho leontias.
  4. Tzanakē, Dēmētra (2009). Women and nationalism in the making of modern Greece: the founding of the kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 70, 82. ISBN 978-0-230-54546-5.
  5. The International Dictionary of Women's Biography. Continuum. 1982. p. 279. ISBN 0-8264-0192-9.


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