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    Published: 2018-12-301
    No. 6 (2018)

    Mother-to-Daughter Women’s Writing in Poland During the Reign of the House of Wettin

    Iwona Maciejewska

    Abstract

    This article presents the characteristic features of women’s writing in Poland during the reign
    of the House of Wettin, as observed in texts addressed by women to their daughters. They contain
    advice, recommendations and blessings given at an important moment in the addressee’s life
    – at her birth or when she is getting married. As upbringing and family matters were, according
    to the traditional mentality, within the domain of women’s activity, female authors of the first half
    of the 18th century probably assumed that they had a voice in that sphere. This article refers to both
    texts published in print and popular with readers – by Barbara Sanguszkowa or Franciszka Urszula
    Radziwiłłowa – and those which, to this day, have remained in manuscript – by Konstancja Gnińska
    and Karolina Urszula Lubomirska. The analysis of these works is oriented at indicating their typical
    content resulting from the convention as well as manifestations of an individual approach to the
    topic.

    Keywords:

    women’s writing, 18th century, Konstancja Czapska, Karolina Urszula Lubomirska, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Barbara Sanguszkowa

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    Maciejewska, I. (2018). Mother-to-Daughter Women’s Writing in Poland During the Reign of the House of Wettin. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (6). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pl/article/view/2656

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