Božena Slančíková-Timrava

Božena Slančíková was born on 2 October 1867 at Polichno, the daughter of the Lutheran pastor Pavol Slančík, one of the founders of the Matica slovenská. Educated mostly at home, at fifteen she briefly attended a boarding school in Banská Bystrica, then spent three months at Dolný Kubín as a lady's companion. She signed Timrava, after a small pond in her village where she liked to write. After her father's death in 1909, she lived with her mother at Ábelová, ran the kindergarten there from 1919 to 1929, moved in 1945 to Lučenec, was named National Artist in 1947 and died there on 27 November 1951.

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