Minerva Association and Eliška Krásnohorská

The bachelor's thesis deals weith the circumstances of the establishment of the Association for Women's studies Minerva, which was founded in year 1890 by Eliska Krasnohorska, in order to establish the first Czech grammar schol for girls - Minerva. The author was working with the results of research and activities of the association. If focuses on the person of Eliska Krasnohorska, a personal figure in literary, cultural and social life. Author worked with the view of Eliska Krasnohorska and the Minerva association from the point of view of the initiative to establishment. The author reflected in the important moments that preceded the establishment. It monitored the possible processes of the development of girl's education and outlines the historical development of women'semancipation in the Czech lands of the 19th century. Work performed from preserved sources of private and cleaning and supplementary with secondary literature. The author was based on the private correspondents of Eliska Krasnohorska, which os stored in the National Literature Memorial