This article aims to show how the theme of education is developed by Eliza Orzeszkowa in her
works of fiction from the early 1880s. Two novellas from the cycle Z różnych sfer [From Different
Spheres], namely Bańka mydlana [Soap-Bubble] and Widma, serve as a pretext for reflecting upon
the discussion about women’s education in which Orzeszkowa partakes, challenging the most significant
statements of the era. She does that because she notices the threat to the aesthetic and social
project of positivist thinkers and realistic writers, the threat posed by the philosophy of individualism
and self-determination.
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