Flóra Majthényi

Flóra Majthényi (28 July 1837 – 18 May 1915) was a Hungarian poet, writer and dramatist. Between 1856 and their divorce in 1868, Majthényi was married to fellow poet Kálmán Tóth.

Life Flóra Majthényi was born into a world of promise and privilege at whose funeral in 1853 she sang.

Her first published verses appeared when she was not quite fourteen on 26 May 1851 in Hölgyfutár ("Ladybird" magazine). A year after that, in 1858, they separated. At the time of their marriage in 1856 observers would have seen Flóra as the rich scion of a privileged family, while Kálmán was a struggling young poet. By the time of their divorce in 1868 Kálmán Tóth was a well established businessman whereas Flóra's work had fallen out of fashion and she was, at least by her former standards, facing destitution. Divorce was very unusual at this time and she was prevented by her former husband from seeing her son while he was growing up after 1868. By the time she died, in 1915, she had become a long-stay patient at the Psychiatric Hospital in the Lipótmező quarter of Budapest. Majthényi is buried at Farkasréti Cemetery.