May a generation of heroic women emerge on this soil.
Birthhouse of Gizela Belinger Ferjančič, the first editor of a Slovenian women's magazine in the Goriška region
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Gorica / Gorizia
Via dei Rabatta, 15

Gizela Belinger Ferjančič (1887–1976) graduated from the teacher training college in Gorizia. She served as editor of the women’s magazine Slovenka (Slovenian Woman, 1922–23) and contributed her writings to other magazines as well. She was 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 seminal essays were published in books Telesna vzgoja otrok (Physical Education for Children) and Duševna vzgoja otrok (Mental Education for Children).

Extract from the Slovenka magazine (1922)

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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