Uliana Kravchenko is the pen name of Julia Schneider (April 18, 1860 – March 31, 1947), was a Ukrainian educator, writer and the first Galician woman ...
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to publish a book of poetry.
She was born in Mykolaiv, currently in Stryi Raion of Lviv Oblast, grew up in Lviv and studied at a teaching seminary. Her first published work was a story that appeared in the journal Zoria. Kravchenko was active in the Ukrainian women´s movement in Galicia. Women´s liberation was a major theme in her poetry; she was considered to be the bard of the women´s movement. She was also one of the first women teachers in Galicia.
