The article introduces Gelč Jontes (1906–1973), a long forgotten Slovenian writer in the history of Slovenian literature. The first part of the article provides biographical information that was previously unknown, as Gelč Jontes was listed in the Encyclopaedia of Slovenia with only a few lines. The following section summarises the reactions of her contemporaries to her only published collection of novellas, Sreča na črepinjah (Happiness on Shards, 1943), and explains the main features of her literary work. The central part of the article focuses on the study of female sexual desire rooted in girls‘ studies and feminist geography studies. The conclusion of the article is that Gelč Jontes contributed to Slovenian literature autobiographical representations of girls‘ sexual desire in urban topography, which she was the first one to introduce to Slovene literature.
