Literary and Decorative Art Works of Queen Elisabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva) during Her Exile (1891–1894)
Literary and Decorative Art Works of Queen Elisabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva) during Her Exile (1891–1894)

Author(s): Silvia Irina Zimmermann
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Romanian Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Summary/Abstract: In Queen Elisabeth’s letters to King Charles I of Romania, during her exile from 1891 to 1894, she is referring to several literary and decorative art works elaborated by her during this period. At the beginning of her exile, the queen declared to her husband, the King, that her activity as a writer and poet had ended, and that she would only prepare her lately written works for a publication. Still, the documents held in the Princely Archive of Wied and the National Archives of Romania show that the queen was writing further prose and poetry, fictionalizing her reflection of the exile experience, and some of the works created by the Queen during her exile were published later, after her return to Romania, under her pen name Carmen Sylva.

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