In the period between the two wars Marija Kmet (1881–1974) was an important writer who has so far been the subject of too little research and too many unfounded and superficial evaluations. Her short narrative prose first appeared in Slovene periodicals in 1911 when in Doma~i prijatelj she published her first story Brez sonca. Her last story was published in the late Thirties. Her short prose work deals with autobiographical experiences, the dual morality of society and the related desire for a different, new man, and with social reality – the First World War and the social despair of the powerless and marginalised. The most extensive part of her work addresses the issue of the woman’s role as mother, wife and teacher, and reveals women’s longing for a different life from the one they chose through inexperience and naive trust.
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