Božena Viková-Kunětická (30 July 1862 – 18 March 1934) was a Czech nationalist politician, writer and feminist.
Božena Viková-Kunětická (30 July 1862 – 18 March 1934) was a Czech nationalist politician, writer and feminist.
Božena Viková-Kunětická was born Božena Novotná on 30 July 1862 in Pardubice, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (today the Czech Republic). [1] She was the first female member of the Bohemian diet. From 1921, she lived in Libočany, where she died in 1934. [2] A novelist, her work is stored at the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature. [1]
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