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Through Education to Independence

It All Began With Eliška Krásnohorská

Who Was Eliška Krásnohorská?

Women Can...

Make Their Living By Themselves

Women Can...

Study

Women Can...

Decide For
Themselves

Women Can...

Decide Not Only For Themselves

Women Can...

Entertain
Themselves

Woke Women of the City of Prague

Jiřina Šiklová Library in Prague

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Authors of texts and exhibition concept
Marie Koval and Milada Sekyrková

Graphic design of the exhibition
Tomáš Červenka

Illustrations
Barbora Müllerová

Production
Jan Dufek and Johana Jonáková

Technical cooperation
Matouš Ettler

Text editing
Markéta Štěpánová

Lyrics narration
Michaela Berkovič and Jan Dufek

English translation
Marie Koval

English texts editing
Vladimír Kroupa

Accompanying programme
Lucie Přibyl

Special thanks go to Marie Foltýnová for her valuable advice and to the Prague City Gallery for the loan of the exhibition panels. 

The photographs used were digitally coloured.

The original archival materials are stored in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Literature of the Memorial of National Literature and in the Eliška Krásnohorská Archive in the Jiřina Šiklová Library in Gender Studies, o.p.s. in Prague.

Doprovodné akce

8. 3. – 7. 4. 2023
Mini-exhibition of original photographs, manuscripts and other unique archival materials from the Eliška Krásnohorská Archive
Jiřina Šiklová Library
21. 3 .2023 od 18:30
Discussion "Eliška Krásnohorská: education to emancipation" as part of the discussion and lecture series Tuesdays with Jiřina Šiklová Library (in Czech)
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