Shobhanasundari Mukhopadhyay

Shobhanasundari Mukhopadhyay (born Shovona Devi Tagore in 1877 in Calcutta; died May 26, 1937, in Howrah) was an Indian writer, known for her collections of folktales. She was the daughter of Hemendranath Tagore and the niece of writer Rabindranath Tagore. Biography The fifth daughter of Hemendranath Tagore, Shovona Devi Tagore was raised in an upper-class, English-educated Hindu family in Calcutta (Kolkata). She married Nagendranath Mukhopadhyay, who was an English professor in Jaipur. In 1923, her uncle Rabindranath Tagore wrote the letter-poem "Shillong-er Chithi" ("Letter from Shillong") to a young Shovona. She died in 1937 at age sixty of complications relating to high blood pressure.