“See How Much I Had to Tell You?”
The letters of Ivan Lah to Ivanka Lipold between 1920and 1938
Keywords:
1918–1941, Ivanka Lipold, Ivan Lah, middle classes, history of mindsetAbstract
In a cultural historical study, the author analyzes the letters composed by the writer, journalist and grammar school teacher Ivan Lah (1881-1938) and sent to Ivanka Lipold (1893-1976), an energetic women’s movement activist from Maribor, whose husband Franjo Lipold (1885– 1970) was Mayor of Maribor in the 1930s. The letters form part of Ivanka Lipold’s legacy kept at the Maribor Regional Archives. Given their intimacy, their number and the fact that they span a long period up to Lah’s death, the letters offer an insight into their authors’ minds. Owing to the position of the two correspondents, the letters are representative of the mindset of the Slovene middle classes in the period between the world wars, particularly that of the liberal (and pro-Yugoslav) proponents of gender equality.
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