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Marko Vovchok (literary pseudonym of Mariia Oleksandrivna Vilinska, 1833-1907) is rightly called the literary daughter of Taras Shevchenko. The writer's works played a leading role in the formation of Ukrainian realistic prose. Marko Vovchok reaches the highest ideological and artistic level in depicting the tragic fate of a serf woman who suffered the greatest humiliation and disenfranchisement in the society of that time. According to Ivan Franko, "the simplicity, beauty, and tenderness of her language and style are inseparably linked to her tender love for all the unfortunate and suffering, and especially for the poorest of the poor - for women..."