User:Thissmileyface/Eugenia Żmijewska
 | This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Eugenia Żmijewska | |
|---|---|
 Eugenia Żmijewska in her youth | |
| Born | 1865 in Uman, Ukraine |
| Died | 1923 (aged 57–58) in Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality | Polish |
Eugenia Żmijewska (Born in 1865 in Uman, died in 1923 in Warsaw) was a Polish novelist, current affairs writer and literary translator.
Biography[edit]
Her literary work revolved mainly around women's sexual identity and its development in more mature years. This is exemplified in her main body of work, a trilogy, which focuses on a woman who is in an unsuccessful romantic relationship, tries to focus on a professional career as an editor but eventually marries and compromises her ambitions. [1]
She worked at Słowa, as an editor and writer. From the year 1899 she was the editor of the monthly supplement Ognisko for the magazine Kurier Polski which was active from 1829 to 1831 in Warsaw. 1914 onwards she was an editor for Świat Kobiety
She was one of the founders of the Polish Writers and Journalists Association.
Novels[edit]
- 1907 – Little Flame: From the Diary of an Institute Girl [2]
- 1909 – Fate [3]
- 1911 – Sweetheart [4]
- 1912 – Młodzi
- 1921 – Car i unitka [5]
- 1910 – From the diary of a failed [6]
- 1912 – Z daleka i z bliska
- 1913 – Scouts: Stories for the Polish Youth (Skauci: Powieść dla młodzieży) [7]
- 1917 – Pole, a citizen [8]
Translations[edit]
She was the first ever translator of two of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels The Sign of Four published in 1890 and The Hound of the Baskervilles published in 1902 to the Polish language [9].
References[edit]
- ^ A History of Central European Women's Writing by Celia Hawkesworth
- ^ Płomyk: Z pamiętnika instytutki, Published on polona.pl
- ^ Dola: powieść Published on polona.pl
- ^ Serduszko published on polona.pl
- ^ Car i unitka published on polona.pl
- ^ Z pamiętnika niedoszłej literatki published on polona.pl
- ^ Skauci: Powieść dla młodzieży published on polona.pl
- ^ Polak obywatel published on polona.pl
- ^ Pies Baskervillow autos Arthur Conan Doyle