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As we have seen, the history of the Hungarian lands in this period was particularly turbulent. The first text discussed in this chapter dates from 1510. It is at least possible that earlier writings by women existed, but have been lost in the upheavals of war. Following the Ottoman victory at the battle of Mohács in 1526, the country was divided into three parts, with the Ottomans occupying central Hungary, including Budapest, and the largely agricultural northern and western territories under Habsburg rule. The only area enjoying a degree of independence was Transylvania.
Professor George Cushing, who taught Hungarian literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies from 1949 to 1986, died in 1996. This chapter, on which he was working as he battled courageously against cancer, has been completed with the help of Peter Sherwood, also at SSEES.
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Notes
Péter Bod, Magyar Athenas, Budapest, 1982, p. 246.
Kata Bethlen, Önéletírása, final section published by András Markos, Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények, Budapest, 1970, pp. 67–75.
János Horváth, A magyar műveltség kezdetei, Budapest, 1944, pp. 139–40.
As Professor Cushing’s work on this chapter was interrupted by his own illness, the last section has been reproduced from Robert Pynsent (ed.), The Everyman Companion to East European Literature, London, Dent, 1993, with kind permission from the publisher.
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Gushing, G. (2001). Women’s Writing in Hungary before 1800. In: Hawkesworth, C. (eds) A History of Central European Women’s Writing. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985151_3
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