Fıtnat Hanım

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27 Kasım, 1842
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Poet (b. 1842, Trabzon - d. 1911, İstanbul). She was the daughter of Hazinedarzade Abdullah Paşa who was a governor of Trabzon. She came to İstanbul with her family when she was four years old. In İstanbul, she was tutored by the famous tutors of the time in Arabic, Persian, calligraphy, prose and the Koran. After marriage her education continued with her mother. Her father's clerk Pertev Paşa influenced her greatly to write poetry.

As her first husband, who did not want her to write poetry, was also jealous, her marriage ended unhappily. After she divorced from her husband, who had cut her eyelashes to make her less attractive, she married Damat Ferit Paşa's uncle, the Chief Secretary of the Navy, Mehmet Ali Efendi and lived for a long time in Bursa. Later on she returned to İstanbul and it is rumored that Fıtnat Hanım wasn’t happy with her marriage and had a passionate affair with Ahmet Mithat Efendi. The lovers' correspondence is recounted in the book, “Ahmet Mithat Efendi and the Poet Fıtnat Hanım” by Hakkı Tarık Us. Her grave is in Edirnekapı Graveyard.

Fıtnat Hanım is considered to be one of the most important women of Divan* poetry. She became well known because of her intelligence and her lyric poems. She prepared a Divan*, but it was not published. Also, her many works did not survive due to the fact that they were not published.

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