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[–]VioletRemi 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What do you mean? "Ukrainka" is literally "ukrainian-girl" on Ukrainian!

And they both were in relationship with each other, by the way. They were writting pretty hot letters, however, because those were delivered by other people, they were hiding it in innuendos and never calling themselves by names, they were referring "the lighter one" and "the darker one" or "one" and "another", referring to hair color, and hiding most hot stuff in innuendos. Imagine sexting someone when next message will come in weeks or months? :D

I would reccomend to read "Princess" of Kobylianska, btw. She was herself "self-learned" and studied a lot of stuff herself, as she could only get few classes of school, as she was a woman in late 1800s, so yeah. And she was writing about women who were defeating the "weak stupid woman" stereotype and were commanding their life on their own.

Lesia was mostly writting pretty good verses.