Karolina Světlá

Johanna Rottová was born in Prague in 1830, into a wealthy family of merchants who gave her a German education; she also learned French. In 1852, she married her music teacher, Petr Mužák, who introduced her to patriotic circles, where she became friends with Božena Němcová and Jan Neruda. After the death of her daughter in 1853, she spent time in her husband's native village, Světlá pod Ještědem, from which she took her pen name. In 1871, with Eliška Krásnohorská, she founded an association that educated and employed poor girls, and she died in Prague in 1899.

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• NovelKříž u potokaKarolina Světlá · 1868not translated into EnglishLiterature