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Birth
Alexandria of Egypt, 1874 -
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Childhood
The third child of Emmanouil Benaki and Virginia Choremi. She had five brothers and sisters (Antoni, Alexandra, Alexandros, Argini, Konstantinos)
1883 the family moved to Athens -
Marriage
She married Stefano Delta and had 3 daughters (Sofia, Virginia, Alexandra) -
Big Love
They met in Alexandria and fall in love. But they never manage to be together. -
''For the Country''
She wrote her first novel ''For the Counrty''. It was about the Byzantine Empire. -
The disease
She got a serious dease, polio, which thorns her till her death. She gradually gets paralitic. -
''Trelandonis''
A very famous novel of her. It's about her brother Antoni. -
''Sta mystika tou valtou''
It is about the fight of the Greeks against the Boulgarians who wanted to conquer Makedonia. -
Death
She couldn't stand the conquer of Athens from the Germans and she poisoned herself the day that the German army came to Athens. She left a letter to her family.
