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Elizabeth Moujan-Martinegou (1801-1832) was born in 1801 and grew up in a patriarchal environment of the early 19th century. Her first teachers were the philosopher Theodosiοs Dimadis and the deacon Vasilios Romantzas. She composed in Italian the dialogue Amalia and Ethelvigi or 'On Envy' and the tragedy-novel 'Henry or Innocence'. She wrote odes and a 'syllabus' on the death of her brother Marino (1822). In 1823 she wrote five dramas, two comedies and anacreontic verses, and in 1824 she completed her comedy The Miser. She began another drama and the comedies "The Good Father" and "Matriarch". Two years later she wrote her treatise "On Economy" in three months. In 1831 she finished "one part of history", her Autobiography. In the same year she became the wife of Nicholas Martinez, and in 1832 she gave birth to her son Elisabetius, who died a few days later. In 1881, Elisabetius proceeded with the censored edition of his mother's Autobiography. He was considered by various scholars to have paved the way for modern Greek women's prose and provided one of the first examples of women's writing and feminist thought.