Radharani devi biography of williams

Radharani Devi (Bengali: রাধারাণী দেবী; 13 November – 9 September ) was one of the prominent Bengali women poets of the twentieth century.^[1]

Literary career

Her first published work was the short story Bimata (Step-Mother) which was published in Basumati in Her first essay was Purush (The Male) which was published in Kallol.

Her first book of collected poems, Lilakamal was published in

She wrote her second book Buker Beena under the penname of Aparajita Devi. After that she penned her third book of poem collections Bono Bohogi and the forth one, Bichitra Rupini both under her real name.^[1]

Devi was famous for her debate with Pramatha Chodhury in the Bengal writer's circuit Rabi Basar, where her enrolment as the first ever women member was initially opposed by Sarat Chandra Chattapadhyay but later was welcomed in the mediation of Jaladhar Sen.

She was known to be fighting for women's rights in the Bengali literary arena