Bagryana was the pen name of Elisaveta Belcheva. Her first poetry collection appeared between the world wars. Women in her poems speak as people acting on their own wishes, rather than only as figures described from outside. Travel, nature and freedom recur throughout her poetry. Published The Eternal and the Holy in 1927. Also worked as a teacher. Her poems introduced a different female voice. Her books help trace changes in the literary presentation of women’s independence.
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