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Orphan Girl: A Lament on a Life's Misfortunes

By Anna Stanislawska, Barry Keane (Editor), Barry Keane (Translator)
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By Anna Stanislawska, Barry Keane (Editor), Barry Keane (Translator)
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A long-lost seventeenth-century poetic text exemplifying women's writing in the early modern period.

Written in 1685, Orphan Girl traces the life of the Polish noblewoman Anna Stanisławska (1651–1700) as she writes candidly and unsparingly about the course of her life, from her infancy to the time of her second widowhood, and ultimately her withdrawal from a world of which she no longer wants any part. Stanisławska was an incomparable memoirist, revealing the tumultuous course of her three m...