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Annais (Yevpime
Avedisian) (1872
İstanbul-1950 Paris)
was poet and short
story writer. Her poems
especially concerned
about sexual theme,
‘women’s body and
desire. Thinking of the
time when she was an
active poet, we can say
that she was daring.
She wrote articles and literary essays in the most important Armenian
periodicals in İstanbul and Paris where she moved after genocide. She
was also a social activist. She was the chair of a women’s organization
for almost 3 decades. She wrote her memoirs in 1949 and it was self
published with the encouragement of her daughter, Astra
Mari Beylerian
(1877 İstanbul-
1915(?) Unknown)
participated
Hunchakian Party
at the age of 18.
She participated
in 1895 Babıali
demonstration
against the rule of
Abdulhamit II. After
that, she had to
escape to Egypt for
fear of arrest and began teaching in the Armenian schools. In 1902,
she began publishing Artemis, a publication for the 20th century of
Armenian women. For 2 years, she edited the journal. After the Young
Turk revolution of 1908, she returned to İstanbul. In 1915, Beylerian
was the principal of a girl’s school in Tokat. From this girl’s school, she
was deported with her students and colleagues during the genocide
and then she was killed under unknown circumstances.