: लक्ष्मीबाई टिळक) was a Marathi

Marathi people

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

 writer from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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.Lakshmibai was born in 1869 .

According to the social custom of her times, after her receiving limited formal education, she was married off by her parents at her age 11 to one Narayan Waman Tilak

Narayan Wamanrao Tilak

Narayan Vaman Tilak was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.Tilak was born on 1861 in a Hindu family in the village of Karajhgaon in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra....

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Narayan Waman Tilak

Narayan Waman Tilak

Narayan Vaman Tilak was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.Tilak was born on 1861 in a Hindu family in the village of Karajhgaon in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra....

was an accomplished Marathi poet. With his encouragement, despite her limited formal education, Lakshmibai too composed some superb poetry. Further, she wrote her autobiography under the title "Smruti Chitre" (स्मृतिचित्रे), which turned out to be a masterpiece in Marathi literature. The autobiography was published in four parts during 1934 -1937. In 1950, one E. Josephine Inkster translated it into English under the title “I Follow After”. (Reference contains an excerpt from the autobiography.

Narayan Waman Tilak started to compose in Marathi an epic titled “Khristayana” (क्रिस्तायन) describing the works of Jesus Christ. However, he died after finishing ten of its chapters. Lakshmibai completed the epic by adding to it 64 chapters of her own.