Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (born 1884)

Halide Edib Adıvar

Turkish novelist, teacher and political activist

Halide Edip Adıvar was a Turkish novelist, teacher, and a nationalist and feminist intellectual. She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw from her observation as the lack of interest of most women in changing their…