Đoàn Thị Điểm

Đoàn Thị Điểm (chữ Hán: 段氏點, 1705 - 1748), courtesy name Thụy Châu (瑞珠), pseudonym Mai Khuê (梅閨) or Rosy Clouds Lady (紅霞女士), was the classical-Vietnamese female poet.

Đoàn Thị Điểm
Born1705
Giai Phạm village, Văn Giang district, Kinh Bắc local government, Đại Việt
DiedSeptember 11th, 1746 or 1748
Nghệ An local government, Đại Việt
Nationality Đại Việt
SpouseNguyễn Kiều
Children1

Biography

Đoàn Thị Điểm was born in 1705 at Giai Phạm village, Văn Giang district, Kinh Bắc local government (now Yên Mỹ District, Hưng Yên province). She is best known for her biography of the goddess Liễu Hạnh[1] and her version of Đặng Trần Côn's poem Lament of a soldier's wife from Hán into vernacular Nôm.[2] The Lament is an example of double seven, six eight form.[3] She was also believed to have posthumously written Nữ Trung Tùng Phận (Duties of Women), a Caodaist moral poem targeting women, in 1933[4][5]

Family

  • Đoàn Doãn Nghi (1678 - 1729) : Father
  • Đoàn Doãn Luân (1700 - 1735) : Older brother.
  • Nguyễn Kiều (1695 - 1752) : Husband (m. 1742-1748, her death).

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