Rassundari Devi
1810 –1900
Writer, Autobiographer
Lived 90 years
- Born in
- Pabna
Rashsundari Devi (Bengali: রাসসুন্দরী দেবী) (c. 1809–1899) was a Bengali woman who is identified as the author of first full-fledged autobiography in modern Bengali literature. She is among the earliest woman writers in Bengali literature.
Rashsundari Devi was born in Eastern Bengal and was the first Indian woman to write an autobiography and the first Bengali to write an autobiography. 'Amar Jiban' was the name of her autobiography.
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