This document summarizes the lives and accomplishments of two early 20th century women's rights activists, Marija Jurić Zagorka from Croatia and Kallirhoe Parren from Greece. Zagorka was a journalist and writer who founded the first women's magazines in Croatia, including Ženski list in 1925 and Hrvatica in 1938. She published several popular novels promoting feminism. Parren was a teacher, journalist, and founder of the first Greek women's newspaper in 1887. She played a key role in efforts to achieve women's suffrage in Greece, addressing the prime minister in 1895 and organizing a women's conference in 1921. Although women's right to vote was not achieved in their lifetimes

1. Monika Zmiša, School of
Midwifery, Croatia
Collaborative presentation of the High School of
Cryssoupolis and the School of Midwifery
Chrysi Krystalli, High School of
Cryshoupolis , Greece

2. Democracy & Women's Rights
Marija Jurić Zagorka, Croatian
women’s rights activist
Kallirhoe Parren, Greek women’s
rights activist

3. About them:
Marija Jurić Zagorka
Occupation: journalist, writer
Born:March 2nd, 1873.
Family:wealthy
Activities:spreading feminism and
amancipation of women
Books: The Witch of Grič(7 novels),
Malleus Malecifarum, and others
Magazines: Women’s Magazine, Croatian
Women
Died:November 30th, 1957.
Kallirhoe Parren
Occupation:journalist,
teacherBorn:1861
Family:middle-class
Activities:launched the
feminism movement
Books:(-)
Magazines:hiEpmeris ton
kirion(women’s journal)
Died:January 16th, 1940

4. Women’s Magazine 1925.
first womwn’s magazine in
Croatia
Croatian woman 1938.
banned 1941. by the fascist
Magazines

5. Famous books

6. Life stories...
Marija Jurić Zagorka
She received her formal education in Zagreb and Varazdin. She married young. Her marriage fell apart and she escaped from her husband
to Zagreb, where she painstakingly began her career in journalism, then unusual for women…
She starts a journalist career in 1896. thus becoming the first female journalist in Croatia. She founded the first women's magazine Ženski
list (Women's Magazine 1925.) and in 1938. journal Hrvatica (Crtoatian woman) which was banned in 1941. by the fascists.
Zagorka's most popular work is the novel Grička vještica (The Witch of Grič) a cycle of 7 novels in which she combines genres of a
historical novel, romance and adventure.There is just two translations of her novels in foreign languages, two of her novels have been
translated in German.The Witch of Gric (1995) and Malleus Maleficarum (1972).
She wrote her autobiography in 1947 titled Što je moja krivnja? (What is my guilt?) in which she explains and defends her life and work.
She died in Zagreb at the age of 84. November 30th 1957. In Croatia women were granted right to vote August 11th 1945.

7. Life stories...
Kallirhoe Parren studied at the best school for girls in Athens and in 1878 she graduated from the Arshakeion School for training
teachers. She was very intelligent and knew many languages including Russian, French, Italian, and English.
She was a teacher and a journalist too. . She launched the feminist movement with the founding of a newspaper, Ephimeris ton
kirion (Women's Journal), in 1887. The newspaper finally stopped running when in 1917 Parren was exiled by Eleftherios
Venizelos’ administration to the island of Hydra, because she opposed Greece’s involvement in WWI on the side of the Entente.
Kallirhoe Parren played a key role in ensuring the women’s right to vote. The first attempt was in 1895, when she addressed the
Prime Minister Charilaos Trikoupis asking him to guarantee political rights of women. Later, in 1921, she organized the second
women conference in Greece, thus persuading the Prime Minister Dimitrios Gounaris be placed personally in favour of granting
the right of vote to women . Ensuring the right to vote to women took too long to be administered and Kallirhoe Parren never saw
her dream for women's empowerment to come true in the political scene of the country.
Kallirhoe Parren

9. Kallirhoe Perren and the Greek tradition
Kallirhoe Parren was the founder of
the Lykion Ellinidon (Lyceum for the
Greek Girls), a syndicate devoted to
the preservation of the Greek tradition
and the presentation of the role of
women in an traditional society. The
Lykion was founded in 1911 and it still
exists producing cultural activities in
the spirit of Kallirhoe Parren. In this
video, you can see a small sample of
what Parren has taught to us.