Sappho Leontias

Sappho Leontias (1832–1900) was a Greek writer, feminist, and educationist from Constantinople. She advocated for educational opportunities for Greek women and published Euridice, togerther with her sister Emilia, her own literary journal. She translated Jean Racine's Esther from the French and Aeschylus's The Persians into modern Greek. In 1887, she published a book on home economics, Oikiaki oikonomia pros hrisin ton Parthenagogeion. For many years she was a headmistress for girls' schools in Smyrna and Samos. She became active advocating womens rights, particularly the right to education. She was married to Narlis, a member of the so called Greek Ottoman assembly. They had a daughter called Korinna.