Portretul unei învățătoare din societatea năsăudeană de la începutul secolului XX. Virginia Grivase (1883-1950)
The Portrait of a Teacher from the Society of Nǎsǎud at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Virginia Grivase (1883-1950)

Summary/Abstract: The teacher Virginia Grivase (1883-1950) is a special figure in the circles of intellectuals in Nǎsǎud, at the beginning of the 20th century. After having completed her studies in Nǎsǎud, and continued in Dej and Blaj, she was a teacher at the school in Tiha Bârgǎului and Nepos (currently villages in Bistrița-Nǎsǎud County) for more than two decades. Documents from her personal collection, kept at the Bistrița-Nǎsǎud County National Archives Service, but also from other funds and collections, as well as her literary activity (poems and essays published in magazines) prove that Virginia Grivase was not just a teacher. The friendly relationship with the writer Liviu Rebreanu and her personification in the novel „Ion” under the pseudonym Virginia Gherman confirms the above statement. This study has a double aim. On the one hand, by reconstructing the biography of this „forgotten writer”, as Teodor Tanco names her, we aim to present some aspects regarding the place, role and status of the educated woman in the society of Nǎsǎud at the beginning of the 20th century. On the other hand, we aim to find the answer to the following question: was Virginia Grivase the prototype of the Romanian woman from Transylvania, emancipated through education, or not?

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