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Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 46, [1] p. Rare first edition. Sukufe Nihal was an early feminist in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic and also a republican. She had a long productive life with several books published during her life time. She was one of the exceptional women with an intellectual capacity to experience the social reforms in the path of European culture, the War of Independence and the rise of a new regime after the abolition of the Sultanate. Besides her literary works, also her personal life was the object of a careful analysis as one of the women who started the struggle for independence of Turkish nation alongside the well-known women particularly Halide Edib, and feminist movement in Turkey by provoking the social reforms. Nihal's poetry and novels, along with her life story, is a reflection of the social realism which was beneath the shadow of her female sensitivity that finally led her into a loneliness and seclusion from her middle age until the end of her life as a result of partial failure of the reform movements to raise the status of women in the society as well as the disappointments she had experienced in her personal life.