Alide Ertel

Alide Ertel (also Aliide Ertel; pseudonyms E. Tammistu and Heiti Lehtme, – December 20, 1955) was an Estonian prose writer, playwright, and poet.

Life Alide Ertel was born in Kiviküla in the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire. She graduated from the Salomon Higher School for Girls in Tartu in 1893 as a private school teacher. From 1894 to 1896, she operated a small private school at her father's farm. From 1896 to 1899, she worked as a private school teacher in the Kostroma Governorate in Russia. She spent 1899 to 1900 in Paris, where she originally wanted to study medicine, but her plans fell through. However, whereas Rooste was positively received by critics, the later works received much more reserved reviews.