Nineteenth-century women’s egodocuments in the historian’s research workshop. (On the margins of the NPDH project: “Memoirs and letters of Polish authors from the Western Krai (Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine) 1795–1918”)
DZIEWIĘTNASTOWIECZNE EGODOKUMENTY KOBIECE W WARSZTACIE BADAWCZYM HISTORYKA. (NA MARGINESIE PROJEKTU NPRH: „PAMIĘTNIKI I LISTY POLSKICH AUTORÓW Z ZIEM ZABRANYCH (LITWA, BIAŁORUŚ, UKRAINA) 1795–1918”

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the research on the nineteenth-century women’s diaries, memoirs, and epistolography, carried out in the years 2013– 2017 as part of the international project of the National Program for the Development of Humanities: “Memoirs and letters of Polish authors from the Western Krai (Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine) in the years 1795–1918”. It discusses the status and role of the nineteenth-century women’s egodocuments in contemporary humanities. The study refers to the importance of autobiographical reflection and cultural perspective, and the major point of reference are selected examples of collections of manuscript letters, memoirs, and diaries of Polish women authors from the so-called Taken Lands1 (Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine) in the nineteenth century, and those women who were associated with these areas only for a period of time, as well as those who only wrote about the Taken Lands. This article focuses primarily on the collections of manuscripts in Lithuanian and Ukrainian archives and libraries (Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius, Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius, Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kiev, Vernadsky National Library, Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv, V. Stefanyk National Scientific Library).

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