Hồ Xuân Hương

Hồ Xuân Hương lived around 1800, between the end of the Lê and the beginning of the Nguyễn, in a literate family originally from Nghệ An, settled near the West Lake in Thăng Long. What is known of her comes mostly from what she wrote: two marriages as a secondary wife, two widowhoods, a life kept on the margins of institutions, teaching and receiving scholars with whom she exchanged verse contests. She is said to have travelled in the north of the country. She died around 1822, and what can be attributed to her is still debated.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryLưu hương kýHồ Xuân Hương · 1814not translated into EnglishLiterature