Maria Konopnicka’s Fairy Tale On Dwarves and a Little Orphan Girl Mary as an Example of Polish Orphan Literature. Looking for Polish Identity?
Maria Konopnicka’s Fairy Tale On Dwarves and a Little Orphan Girl Mary as an Example of Polish Orphan Literature. Look ng for Polish Identity?

Summary/Abstract: Orphanage is one of the most important and most explored themes in the nineteenth-century Polish literature for children. In world literature we can find e.g. Cinderella, the girl with the matchbox, all the orphans from the songbooks for kindergartens, protagonists from the books of Charles Dickens, Ann of the Green Gables, the child from the secret garden, children from patriotic Finnish fairy tales of Zacharias Topelius – they all belong to the collective imagination.

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