Parvin E'tesami

She was born at Tabriz on 16 March 1907 — the English article gives 17 March, a split the museum's record discloses — daughter of the journalist and man of letters Yussef E'tesami, and grew up in Tehran, trained by her father in Arabic and classical Persian literature. She graduated from the Iran Bethel school in 1924, declined an invitation to tutor the Pahlavi queen, and in 1934 married a cousin of her father, a marriage dissolved after ten weeks. She declined a state medal in 1936 and worked for some months at the library of Tehran's Teacher Training College before dying of typhoid fever at Tehran on 4 April 1941 — Iranica and Wikidata give 5 April — and was buried beside her father at Qom. ¹²

Her Divan, first published in 1935 with an introduction by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar and enlarged after her death to 209 compositions and 5,606 distiches, follows classical forms. Its largest share is the monazara, the debate poem, alongside fables and anecdotes in which animals, objects and abstractions argue over ethics, knowledge, social justice and the dignity of the poor; "Safar-e ashk" (Journey of a tear) is counted among the finest Persian lyrics. ¹²

Her affiliation is recorded as unknown. Neither Wikipedia article states her religion, Iranica's entry names no affiliation, and Wikidata carries no religion value; the religious and moral themes of the verse are repertoire, not attestation. ¹³²⁴

This entry is built from the cited source records in the museum's source registry (data/source/). Facts are stated only as the cited sources give them; where a source is silent, the entry is silent.