Writer
(b. 28 March 1866, İstanbul - d. 1944, İstanbul). Her surname was Önasya. She
also used the pen name Emine Vahide. She was the daughter of the historian and
politician Ahmet Cevdet Paşa and sister of Fatma Aliye Hanım, the novelist. In
her youth she received private education and also studied psychology and
sociology in France and Switzerland.
From 1882,
she worked as a teacher in İstanbul and Anatolia, as an inspector of girls’
schools and an assistant nurse at Şişli Etfal Hospital. Her articles on
politics and education were published in the newspapers Mütalaa (Thessalonica) and Hanımlara
Mahsus Gazete after the
declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy. She also prepared a mathematics
textbook.
WORKS (Novel):
Sefalet (Poverty 1908), Gayya Kuyusu (The Pit of Hell).