Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn

Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn (Korean: 허난설헌; Hanja: 許蘭雪軒; 1563 – March 19, 1589), was a Korean painter and poet of the mid-Joseon dynasty. She was the younger sister of Hŏ Pong, a politician and political writer, and elder sister to Hŏ Kyun, a prominent writer of the time and credited as the author of The Tale of Hong Gildong. Her own writings consisted of some two hundred poems written in Chinese verse (hanshi), and two poems written in hangul (though her authorship of the hangul poems is contested).