Lê Ngọc Hân

Lê Ngọc Hân
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	Lê Ngọc Hân
Hán-Nôm	黎玉忻

Princess Lê Ngọc Hân (1770–1799) was a Vietnamese writer whose two surviving laments for her husband in Vietnamese-language Chữ nôm occupy an important place in Vietnamese literature and history.^[1]

She was the twenty-first and youngest daughter of king Lê Hiển Tông who arranged her marriage at the age of sixteen to Nguyễn Huệ, who later reigned as Emperor Quang Trung, for whom she left two admirable poems in chữ nôm, moving laments for her husband.^[2]

She herself was memorialized in a lament by Phan Huy Ích.

References

1. Nguyên Thi Minh Hà, Nguyên Thi Thanh Bình Vietnamese feminist poems from antiquity to the present 2007 Page 81 "King Lẽ Hiển Tông (life: 1716–1786; reign: 1740–86) married off his youngest daughter, Princess Lê Ngọc Hân (1770–1799), to Nguyễn Huệ (life: 1753–1792; reign: 1788–92), leader of the .. Lê Ngọc Hân was skilled in classics and history and gifted in writing poetry and prose. In 1786, Nguyễn Huệ brought his troops to the North to exterminate the Trịnh lords controlling the Lê dynasty. The king gave Lê Ngọc Hân, then sixteen,"
2. Thomas Hodgkin Vietnam: the revolutionary path 1981 - Page 87 "gave him his sixteen-year-old daughter, Le Ngoc Han, as a wife. A well-educated girl, she died in 1799 at the age of twenty-nine, leaving two children and two admirable poems in nom, moving laments for her husband ..."