Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the formation of writer's self-confidence among female Slovenian poets who developed in the circle of the newspaper Slovenka in Trieste (1897-1902). The situation of Slovenian female authors was in the Slovenian society very difficult because the strictly clerical and patriarchal Slovenian society, which existed on the edge of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
Women writers had no predecessors and they had to establish themselves in the patriarchal environment. Their identities as writers were very fragile: only two female authors managed to publish poems in book form: Vidi Jeraj (1908) and Ljudmili Poljanec (1906). Despite their original poems and interesting poetics misogynistic critics wrote devastating reviews of their books, which stopped their writing.