Staropolskie siostry Szekspira
Old-Polish Sisters of Shakespeare

Summary/Abstract: Book review: Joanna Partyka, „Żona wyćwiczona”. Kobieta pisząca w kulturze XVI i XVII wieku [‘“The Drilled Wife”. Writing woman in the culture of 16th and 17th centuries’], Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, Warszawa, 2004. Joanna Partyka has set as a goal for herself to examine the phenomenon of female writing in the Polish soil in the ages of yore. Her book is constructed quite meticulously: from a presentation of the role of women in the society (the figures of two biblical women, Eve and Mary – the dark and the bright side of femininity – proved helpful to this end), through to possibilities, howsoever tenuous, of getting them educated and doing a creative artistic work (which, by way of digression, usually triggered objections amongst so-called open-minded social strata) and female literary output in the form of epistolography, memoirism, and literary life in convents or nunneries.

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