Wass Ottilia grófnő kéziratos versfüzete. Előmunkálat
The Manuscript Poetry Booklet of Countess Ottilia Wass. A Preliminary Study

Summary/Abstract: The Wass family is a famous aristocratic family of Transylvania. Among its members, Countess Ottilia Wass (1829-1917), with her special education, stood out with her social sensitivity and her sustained activities of cultural patronage. Studying the archives of the Wass family, the author of the article identified a notebook with verses entitled Poésies 1869- 1870, which contains some of her own lyrical creations alongside poems and aphorisms of other authors mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to the 15 texts in Hungarian, the notebook contains 5 French, 14 English and 13 German texts, including Hungarian, German and English poems by female authors. The textual examination of the manuscript sheds light on the countess’s linguistic abilities, her preferences as a reader, as well as (to a lesser extent) her network of literary relationships.

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