Pavlina Pajk

9. 4. 1854 – 1. 6. 1901
Pavlina Pajk (neé Doljak) was born in Pavia, Italy, to Pavlina Milharčič and Josip Doljak. Her mother, or perhaps grandmother, served for a while as a lady-in-waiting with the family of the French king in exile.

When both her parents died she went to live with her uncle Matija Doljak in Solkan, and it was there that she first started to learn Slovene at the age of 16. Her national awareness was shaped by the intellectuals who came to her uncle’s house, and she soon began to perfom with the Gorizia and Solkan reading societies. Her interest in Slovenian books now expanded to foreign literature. Pavlina Pajk also tried herself in writing and in 1873 she published her first lyrical prose Prva ljubezen (First love) in the Soča newspaper. In the face of her brother’s disapproval she was forced to write in Slovenian in secret. She found support in Josip Cimperman and Janko Pajk (editor of the Zora magazine), whom she soon married. The couple moved to Maribor and later to Graz, Brno and Vienna. Pavlina Pajk described the emotional horizons of her youth, the bitter experience of an orphaned girl, her first loves and marital bliss in the poems she wrote for the Zora (Dawn) magazine (1874–78), which she published in a poetry book in 1878 in Maribor.

She also wrote an extensive body of narrative prose. Her novels, stories and tales depict the life of the bourgeoisie, the peasantry, and the working class, but she also wrote about women’s issues. Pavlina Pajk embarked on her extremely successful career as a writer as a student at the Ursuline school in Gorizia. When she left Gorizia after her wedding (at the Gorizia cathedral), she captured her love for her home there in the poem Slovo od domovine (Farewell to homeland).

Ne odrekaj mi v bodočnosti spomina!
Oj priroda, oj zrakovje, solnce milo,
Vam izročam zadnje svoje poslovílo.
Ko črez mejo že hlapon me odpeljuje,
Vas še vidim, čutim — kmalu vse bo tuje.
Čuvaj Bog te, ti družina moja mila.

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Cattedrale Metropolitana dei Santi Ilario e Taziano / Stolnica svetega Hilarija in Tacijana), Corte Sant'Ilario / Dvor Sv. Hilarija;(druge lokacije: Uršulinski samostan: Via Palladio 6; Solkan: Šolska ulica 20)

Pavlina Pajk

9. 4. 1854 – 1. 6. 1901
Pavlina Pajk
Pavlina Pajk (neé Doljak) was born in Pavia, Italy, to Pavlina Milharčič and Josip Doljak. Her mother, or perhaps grandmother, served for a while as a lady-in-waiting with the family of the French king in exile.

When both her parents died she went to live with her uncle Matija Doljak in Solkan, and it was there that she first started to learn Slovene at the age of 16. Her national awareness was shaped by the intellectuals who came to her uncle’s house, and she soon began to perfom with the Gorizia and Solkan reading societies. Her interest in Slovenian books now expanded to foreign literature. Pavlina Pajk also tried herself in writing and in 1873 she published her first lyrical prose Prva ljubezen (First love) in the Soča newspaper. In the face of her brother’s disapproval she was forced to write in Slovenian in secret. She found support in Josip Cimperman and Janko Pajk (editor of the Zora magazine), whom she soon married. The couple moved to Maribor and later to Graz, Brno and Vienna. Pavlina Pajk described the emotional horizons of her youth, the bitter experience of an orphaned girl, her first loves and marital bliss in the poems she wrote for the Zora (Dawn) magazine (1874–78), which she published in a poetry book in 1878 in Maribor.

She also wrote an extensive body of narrative prose. Her novels, stories and tales depict the life of the bourgeoisie, the peasantry, and the working class, but she also wrote about women’s issues. Pavlina Pajk embarked on her extremely successful career as a writer as a student at the Ursuline school in Gorizia. When she left Gorizia after her wedding (at the Gorizia cathedral), she captured her love for her home there in the poem Slovo od domovine (Farewell to homeland).

Ne odrekaj mi v bodočnosti spomina!
Oj priroda, oj zrakovje, solnce milo,
Vam izročam zadnje svoje poslovílo.
Ko črez mejo že hlapon me odpeljuje,
Vas še vidim, čutim — kmalu vse bo tuje.
Čuvaj Bog te, ti družina moja mila.

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