1. Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan spent her youth advocating socialism, and rallied with left-wing politics for the remainder of her life, primarily as a representative of Poporanist circles and personal friend of culture critic Garabet Ibraileanu.
24 Facts About Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan
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The cousin of socialist politico Vasile Mortun, Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was the sister-in-law of novelist and political figure Mihail Sadoveanu.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was related to various families of importance in Romanian political history.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan's parents were Gheorghe Grigore and Eleonora Mortun, uncle and aunt of the socialist Vasile Mortun.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was adopted, soon after birth, by the Andrei family, and is reported to have been an unhappy and unwanted child.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan had a half-sister, Adela, whom she later described as one of the beauties of Moldavia.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was at the time in Bacau city, a substitute teacher at the day school for girls.
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In short time, Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan Mortun made her way to Bucharest, Romania's capital.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan followed him to Focsani, where she taught at the Girls' Boarding School, and eventually to Bucharest, where she worked as an educator for Scoala Centrala de Fete.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan became a disciple of the Poporanist theorist and editor in chief Garabet Ibraileanu, particularly in what concerns Ibraileanu's rationalist approach to literary phenomena.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan has a philosophy, even though she is a woman.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan's work touched on the connection between Romanian Symbolists and the literary side of Vienna Secession.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan reacted against cultural isolationism, describing in detail the merits of reciprocal translation in expanding the written culture.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was one of four female writers invited to attend the 1909 congress of writers held at the Gheorghe Lazar High School, which effectively established the Romanian Writers' Society, a professional association presided upon by Mihail Sadoveanu.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan became noted as a translator foreign-language works, primarily Italian, into her native Romanian; in 1909, under contract with Minerva, she published a volume of novellas by Grazia Deledda and Giovanni Verga's Royal Tiger.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan returned to take up a headmistress' office at Iasi's Pedagogic Institute for Girls, and later at the Elena Cuza School of Bucharest.
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Although, after Impresii literare, her critical essays were never again collected in book form, Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan published several new tracts as an educationist: the 1911 Educatia estetica si artistica din ultimele doua decenii was followed later by Material didactic Montessori, Educatia noua.
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In 1918, shortly after World War I had ended, Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan Sadoveanu was a founding member of Asociatia pentru emanciparea civila si politica a femeilor romane, which unified several of the feminist associations in Greater Romania around the ideal of women's suffrage.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan later traced the origin of Romania's organized feminist movement with the UFR's earliest nucleus, created in the 1840s by Maria Nicolau.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan lectured there about the implementation of education reform.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was originally a columnist for Dimineata, with Pagina femeii ; at the same time, Viata Romaneasca serialized her biographic series Profiluri feminine, later taken up by Adevarul Literar si Artistic.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan alleged that, as a very young man, Ibraileanu had been in love with her sister Adela.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan was contributing to the provincial press: in 1934, her piece "How to Create a Reading Public" ran in the Ploiesti paper Gazeta Cartilor.
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Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan is mentioned, as Sidonia Alexe, in In preajma revolutiei a 1930s novel and hidden memoir by Constantin Stere, former member of the Viata Romaneasca circle.