Kunegunda Białopiotrowiczowa i jej zaginiona powieść
Kunegunda Białopiotrowiczowa and Her Lost Novel
Author(s): Michał Mesjasz Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Kunegunda Białopiotrowiczowa; Łucja Rautenstrauchowa; Białopiotrowiczowa's “Hrabia Teodor, czyli Łazienki w Warszawie [Count Teodor, or the Baths in Warsaw]”; Romuald Giedroyć; Wacław Borowy
Summary/Abstract: The text describes the life of Kunegunda Białopiotrowiczowa (1793–1883), a women writer, émigré activist, a daughter of general Romuald Giedroyć, and a sister of Łucja Rautenstrauchowa. Special attention is brought to the period of her life in which as a Joséphine de Beauharnais’ lady-in-waiting she stayed in Malmaison, and to a later time when for some 40 years she lived in Paris. A separate issue touched in this article refers to the author’s endeavour to settle the status of her novel “Hrabia Teodor, czyli Łazienki w Warszawie [Count Teodor, or the Baths in Warsaw]”. Resorting to the source materials, the author attempts to reconstruct the final fortune of the book and, unable to access any copy, from the National Library of Poland in Warsaw he cites a note – the novel’s summary – composed by Wacław Borowy, a literary historian.
Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki. Czasopismo kwartalne poświęcone historii i krytyce literatury polskiej
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 165-173
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Polish
