She recalls the periods when she first learned to read and write in her memoirs. Rashsundari Debi was a Bengali writer well known for writing the first full-fledged autobiography in modern Bengali literature. She was one of Bengali literature's first female authors. Her work attracted attention from early on and was widely read throughout Bengal. She died at the young age of 36. Rashsundari Devi was born on August 12, 1876 in Chittagong District, East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh). Her father was Narayan Deb and her mother was Chandrani Devi. She had two sisters named Sushila and Sujata. When Rashsundari was five years old, her family moved to Calcutta where her father worked as an accountant for the Indian Railway Department. Here she received her education. In 1893, her father retired to spend more time with his family and Rashsundari went to St. Mary's School in Calcutta. The next year, her father died suddenly while watching over one of the trains that he had been responsible for maintaining; this may have caused him to be hospitalized when he was already suffering from tuberculosis. This is what leads many historians to believe that he died of the disease. After her father's death, Rashsundari stopped going to school and started working to support her family.