19th-century Albanian women writers

Dora d'Istria, pen-name of duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya, born Elena Ghica (Gjika/Xhika) (22 January 1828, Bucharest – 17 November 1888, Florence), was a Romanian and Albanian Romantic writer and feminist, most notable for having emblematized the Albanian national cause of the 19th century.