Heo Nanseolheon

Heo Nanseolheon (1563–1589), personal name Cho-hui, was a Joseon poet and painter of the Yangcheon Heo clan in Gangneung. A child prodigy, her Chinese verse written at age eight was hailed as the work of an immortal maiden. Her elder brother Heo Bong and younger brother Heo Gyun, author of The Tale of Hong Gildong, guided her education.

She composed some two hundred poems in Chinese. Married to Kim Seongnip, she suffered an unhappy marriage and the death of both children, and died of illness on March 19, 1589, aged twenty-seven.