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As a case of women's reading and writing, I focused in a literary life of Sin-Sodang(申蕭堂), who had contributed to several newspapers six times in 1898 to 1909. She was an active woman who eagerly participated with the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement in 1905 -1910, leading women's organizations such as Jinmyeong-buinhye(진명부인회)and establishing a school. Looking into her genealogy, I found a few important information about her private life. She was born in 1853 or 1869 and died in 1930. She was a second wife of the upper class statesman and had four sons. I doubt she had been a concubine before her marriage.
Her contribution on November 5, 1898 in Jeguk-sinmum(제국신문) was the first that women's writing was published in a readers column in modern newspapers. In that contribution, Sin-Sodang announced her opinion about political affairs, when the late Choseon Dynasty was like a chaos politically at that time. The six contributions to newspapers seemed to be her another practice of the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement. It was an important event in women's literary history that women readers like Sin-Sodang had begun announcing their opinion in public by readers columns in the 1900s.