Wirydiana Fiszerowa – żona i matka, podróżniczka i intelektualistka

• Authors: Klaudia Smaza

Title variants

EN

Wirydianna Fiszerowa –Wife and Mother, Traveller and Intellectual

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is an attempt to present the position of a woman in the Old Polish period with emphasis on social and moral transformation which contributed to considerable progress and increased opportunities for eighteenth-century women. This study focuses on the one hand on the role of a woman as a wife and mother, on the other hand on the image of a woman-intellectual, educated and conscious, often possessing considerable political ambitions. Special attention has been devoted to Wirydianna Fiszerowa and the reflections concentrate on her memoir called Dzieje moje własne i osób postronnych.Wiązanka spraw poważnych, ciekawych i błahych (The history of myself and other people. A handful of serious, interesting and trivial matters). The account by Fiszerowa presented in this work is not only a memoir interesting from the literary point of view, not only a reliable panorama of the reign of king Stanislaus II as seen from the perspective of a member of high society, but also a valuable source presenting an image of an outstanding eighteenth-century woman who was clearly ahead ead of her female contemporaries due to her attitude, intellect and life choices.

Keywords

EN

woman in the eighteenth century; woman in Old Polish literature; Old Polish ways and customs; woman as mother; woman as wife; writing woman; Wirydianna Fiszerowa; memoir writing

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk w Przemyślu
• Journal: Rocznik Przemyski
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 2: Literatura i Język
• Pages: 36-54

Contributors

author

Klaudia Smaza

Identifiers

ISSN

0137-4168