UNKNOWN POEM AND ESSAYS IN MANUSCRIPT BY ANASTASIJA MILOSHOVA FROM 1895 AND 1896

Abstract

In this paper we refer to a part of the newly found manuscript archive of the young author Anastasia Miloshova. It consists of an untitled poem written on a separate sheet and four essays written in an unpaged notebook without covers. The poem and essays were written during Miloshova's schooling in Thessaloniki, in the period 1895-1896. The song is a product of the romantic perceptions of the author and it deals with the meaning and the need for an ideal. The four prose works deal with different topics related to rural life, the birth of Jesus Christ, the purity and the duties that parents and children have in their daily lives. Anastasia Miloshova's works are the first registered Macedonian essays and poems in manuscript, which increases the number of works by Macedonian women in the 19th century.

Keywords: Anastasia Miloshova (Milosheva); Macedonian literature in 19^th century; Macedonian women’s writing; manuscripts; poem; essays.