Růžena Jesenská

Růžena Jesenská (17 June 1863 – 14 July 1940) was a Czech decadent writer. She was a follower of Julius Zeyer. She was a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences (elected 1929), and was aunt of writer Milena Jesenská. Jesenská wrote novels, plays, short stories, children's books, and over 50 collections of poetry. Although few works by Czech women writers have been translated into English, writers, such as Jesenská, were widely published and read.