Ľudmila Podjavorinská, who was born Ľudmila Riznerová (26th April 1872, Horné Bzince – 2nd March 1951, Nové Mesto nad Váhom), was the first Slovak woman to publish a collection of poems. Her poetry juvenilia, from 1895, From the Spring of Life (Z vesny života), included intimate lyrical poetry about the emotional life of a young girl. Its melancholic and elegiac tone, combined with an emphasis on states of hopelessness, sadness, doubt, loneliness and abandonment, to a certain extent, foreshadows the topics and practices of Slovak poetic modernism from the turn of the 20th century. From her prose juvenilia...