Last name: Konopnicka
Name/names: Maria
Also known as: Wasiłowska, Red
Born: 23 maj 1842 (Suwałki, Poland)
Died: 8 October 1910 (Lviv, Ukraine).
Maria from Wasiłowski Konopnicka – She was born 23 V 1842 r. in Suwałki. She spent her childhood in Kalisz, studying at home initially. Then, in the years 1855-1856 She studied at the salary of the Sisters of the Sacrament in Warsaw, gdzie poznała Elizę Orzeszkową. At the age of twenty, a year 1862, She married a landowner Jan Jarosław Konopnicki and, together with her husband, lived in the estate of Bronów near Łęczyca. During the January Uprising Konopnicki, for fear of arrest, They went to Dresden, where Maria Konopnicka undertook intensive self -education work. Then she also began to write. They returned to the country in the year 1865, After the amnesty is announced, However, they were forced to sell in debt of Bronów and lease a small Gusin farm. Konopnicki's marriage was not successful, It finally fell apart in the year 1877, When Maria went with six children to Warsaw. She lived here until a year 1890, Always in very bad conditions. She worked as a teacher, she published, for a year 1878 She took part in underground and public social actions (Reading room for women, Circle of folk education, Care for political and criminal prisoners). In year 1882 She went to Austria and Italy, and in 1884 – to the Czech Republic. For a year 1890, forced by the tsarist authorities (and by the need to treat one of the daughters) She stayed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy, However, maintaining constant contact with the country. Her material and living situation only improved in the year 1903, When is it, A year after the 25th anniversary of his writing work, Konopnicka received as a national gift of the manor house in Żarnowiec near Krosno. After a year 1905 She still did not give up social work, Among other things, she went to Warsaw, to organize help for the imprisoned and their families with other activists. Died 8 X 1910 r. in the sanatorium in Lviv.
Maria Konopnicka zadebiutowała wierszem On a winter morning, published in the year 1870, ale za jej właściwy debiut uważa się poetycki cykl In the mountains, announced in the year 1876. In the years 1884-1886 pisarka redagowała pismo dla kobiet Dawn
. Initially, she dealt mainly with poetry, but in time she also began to grow prose species. Debiutancki tom nowel Four novels ukazał się w roku 1888, shortly afterwards the next one.
Maria Konopnicka belongs to the most famous works:
– Lyrical cycles: Evening songs, To Fujarce, From meadows and fields, After dew, Lines and sounds, Italia;
– epos Mr. Balcer in Brazil;
– Towel: Mendel Gdański, Our scape, Mercy of the commune;
– songs for children: About the dwarfs and the orphans of Marysia, About Janek Wandering, For berries.