Adela Xenopol published both literary works and feminist tracts, founding several magazines.
10 Facts About Adela Xenopol
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Adela Xenopol was born in 1861, in Iasi, the capital of the Western Moldavia region, to a family of intellectuals.
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Adela Xenopol was educated abroad, in Paris taking classes at the College de France and became one of the first women to audit courses at the Sorbonne.
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Adela Xenopol's first published work, Chestiunea femeilor, was published in Femeia Romana in January 1879.
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Adela Xenopol founded the monthly magazine Dochia in Bucharest in 1896 and then between 1896 and 1898, she served as its editor of the monthly journal Dochia, a women's rights publication.
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Adela Xenopol solicited articles from leading cultural figures including Maria Cuntan, Smaranda Gheorghiu, Cornelia Kernbach, Cincinat Pavelescu, Elena Sevastos, Vasile Urechia, among others to provoke debate on women's place in society.
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Adela Xenopol supported emancipation in economic, intellectual, legal and political spheres.
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Between 1912 and 1916, Adela Xenopol edited Viitorul romancelor.
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Adela Xenopol published Prin Cetatea Carpatilor in Bucharest in 1928 with the Royal Court Press.
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Adela Xenopol died on 10 May 1939 and with her death, the Romanian feminist and democratic movements lost one of their most ardent proponents.