Anna Angyal

Anna Angyal (née Engel; 1848–1874) was a Hungarian-Jewish author. She also served as a governess.

Biography[]

Born in Veszprim in 1848, she attended the Jewish community school of her birthplace, and later that in the town of Hódmezővásárhely, where her father was a teacher.^[1] Versed in Hungarian, French, and German literature, Angyal began her literary career at the age of sixteen.^[2] Her first novella, Egy magyar család kalandjai ('Adventures of a Hungarian Family'), was published in the Hungarian magazine Szegedi Hiradó. In 1865 she published in the Magyar Izsráelita a short novel entitled Előítéletek ('Prejudices'), in which she described the condition of the Jews in Hungary. Her historical novel, Ilonka és Elemér, was published in 1868.^[3]

After the completion of this novel, she accepted a position as governess in Pest, where she wrote several poems and an autobiography. She died after succumbing to an illness in the autumn of 1874.^[1]

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore (1901). "Angyal (Engel), Anna". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 603.

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