Fényképalbum, napló és regény – Kónya Gyuláné Schéfer Teréz életének megismerhetősége
Photoalbum, Diary and Novel – Researching the Life of Kónya Gyuláné Schéfer Teréz

Summary/Abstract: Kónya Gyuláné Schéfer Teréz was born and raised in Cluj-Napoca. After fi nishing her studies, she became the fi rst female teacher in theProtestant College in the school year of 1907/1908. She then quit her job and married a protestant pastor, Kónya Gyula. In the engagementperiod Teréz kept a diary, which has been a great source of information for understanding how a young, educated woman in Transylvaniathought about marriage and the place of a woman in the beginning of the 20th century. In the interwar period they lived in Magyarvalkó(Valcău), a little village in the Kalotaszeg region. She became involved in the life of the village and started to organize the home craft, providingwork to the rural women, who could sew the traditional textiles. This article analyses her photo album, in the light of her diary and otherwritten sources, like the autobiography of János Kemény and the novel of Márton Gerlóczy. The photos show us a woman who is aware of herstatus as the wife of a pastor, but seeks to fi nd ways to expand beyond this. We fi nd images taken at textile exhibitions, which are more closelylinked to her independent identity, as the woman who reorganized the sewing in Kalotaszeg after the fi rst world war.

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