Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič
(pseudonym Gizela Majeva)

2. 5. 1887 - 19. 6. 1976
Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič (1887-1976) graduated from the teacher training college in Gorizia. Her teaching job took her to different towns in the Littoral, but she also served as editor of the women’s magazine Slovenka (Slovenian Woman, 1922–23) and contributed her writings to other magazines as well.

One of Slovenka’s high-profile sections was Znamenite Slovenke (Slovenian Women of Note). The Ženski svet (Women’s World) magazine later introduced a similar section, and Bellinger Ferjančič actively contributed to it from its inception. Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič was also the founding member of Gorizia’s Slovenian women’s society Splošno žensko društvo (General Women’s Society). She published several manuals: Materinstvo (Motherhood), Vzorna gospodinja (Model Housewife), and Nova kuharica (The New Cookbook), and wrote about children and youth education – these essays were published in books Telesna vzgoja otrok (Physical Education for Children) and Duševna vzgoja otrok (Mental Education for Children). Lelja Rehar Sancin noted the fascinating fate of her book Duševna vzgoja otrok: “Gizela Majeva’s books were always well-received and soon sold out, so they are difficult to come by today. […] The author herself had no copy and in 1958 she sent a request to the Biblioteca Civica in Trieste to borrow her books because she had to submit them to the Ministry in Rome as evidence of her previous work in education. In her letter she mentioned that UNESCO had interfered at the Ministry in Rome on her behalf, so that Goriška Matica could publish her last book, because at the time printing books in Slovenian was prohibited. She submitted the Italian translation of her book to the ministry in Rome and the publication was then approved by no other than prime-minister Mussolini.” Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič is also the author of Slovensko berilo za višje razrede slovenskih osnovnih šol (Slovenian reader for higher years of Slovenian primary schools), which was published in Gorizia in 1946. 

The paper we are sending to our sisters in the Littoral bears a word on its forehead, one that in our nation’s hour of need makes each proud heart sing: SLOVENKA! This name captures what we aspire to achieve. May there grow from this land a generation of heroic women who will protect the Slovenian child from foreign stampede! Let Slovenian language resonate across the sunny homes of the Littoral, and may the Slovenian song reverberate from the mouths of our girls and women!

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Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič
(pseudonym Gizela Majeva)

2. 5. 1887 - 19. 6. 1976
Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič featured
Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič (1887-1976) graduated from the teacher training college in Gorizia. Her teaching job took her to different towns in the Littoral, but she also served as editor of the women’s magazine Slovenka (Slovenian Woman, 1922–23) and contributed her writings to other magazines as well.

One of Slovenka’s high-profile sections was Znamenite Slovenke (Slovenian Women of Note). The Ženski svet (Women’s World) magazine later introduced a similar section, and Bellinger Ferjančič actively contributed to it from its inception. Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič was also the founding member of Gorizia’s Slovenian women’s society Splošno žensko društvo (General Women’s Society). She published several manuals: Materinstvo (Motherhood), Vzorna gospodinja (Model Housewife), and Nova kuharica (The New Cookbook), and wrote about children and youth education – these essays were published in books Telesna vzgoja otrok (Physical Education for Children) and Duševna vzgoja otrok (Mental Education for Children). Lelja Rehar Sancin noted the fascinating fate of her book Duševna vzgoja otrok: “Gizela Majeva’s books were always well-received and soon sold out, so they are difficult to come by today. […] The author herself had no copy and in 1958 she sent a request to the Biblioteca Civica in Trieste to borrow her books because she had to submit them to the Ministry in Rome as evidence of her previous work in education. In her letter she mentioned that UNESCO had interfered at the Ministry in Rome on her behalf, so that Goriška Matica could publish her last book, because at the time printing books in Slovenian was prohibited. She submitted the Italian translation of her book to the ministry in Rome and the publication was then approved by no other than prime-minister Mussolini.” Gizela Bellinger Ferjančič is also the author of Slovensko berilo za višje razrede slovenskih osnovnih šol (Slovenian reader for higher years of Slovenian primary schools), which was published in Gorizia in 1946. 

The paper we are sending to our sisters in the Littoral bears a word on its forehead, one that in our nation’s hour of need makes each proud heart sing: SLOVENKA! This name captures what we aspire to achieve. May there grow from this land a generation of heroic women who will protect the Slovenian child from foreign stampede! Let Slovenian language resonate across the sunny homes of the Littoral, and may the Slovenian song reverberate from the mouths of our girls and women!

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