Papadat-Bengescu, Hortensia

Born Dec 8, 1876, in Ivesti, Tecuci District; died Mar. 6, 1955, in Bucharest. Rumanian writer.

Papadat-Bengescu’s best work is a cycle of novels revealing the moral degradation of the bourgeois family: The Dishevelled Maidens (1926), A Bach Concert (1927), and Hidden Road (1933).