ABLE LATVIAN WOMAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 23

ABLE LATVIAN WOMAN

WRITER AND JOURNALIST The well-known writer and first woman journalist of Latvia, Mrs. Anna Ruman-Kenin, lias recently been able to celebrate the 40th jubilee of her literary and journalistic activities. Mrs. Ruman-Kenin, who can at the same time look back upon many years of successful work in the educational domain, was the founder of a high school for girls, which she opened at Riga in 1909. With the 'help of a circle of prominent men and women, which she has always had a particular gift in gathering round her, she has known how to rouse, and to maintain, popular interest in the national literature of her country. Sinco 1915 Mrs. Ruman-Kenin has devoted all her capacities and energies by propagating the idea of Latvian political independence by word of mouth and her able pen, at home as well as abroad and owing to these activities she came to hold an almost unique position in public life and as participant in the efforts of organised women ever since Latvia became an autonomous State.