Kobieta samotna: pamiętnik i korespondencja Kazimiery Białłozorówny–Tańskiej z lat 40.–80. XIX wieku
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Aristokratija; Bajorai; Dienoraštis; Kazimiera Bialozoraitė-Tanskienė; Laiškai; Lietuva XIX amžiuje; Moterys; Privatus gyvenimas; Vieniša moteris; Visuomeninis gyvenimas; Šeima; Correspondence; Diary; Family; Kazimiera Biallozorowna-Tanska; Lithuania in 19th century; Lonely woman; Nobility; Private life; Social life; Women.
ENKazimiera Białłozorówna-Tańska (1816-1888) was born in a noble family in Samogitia, an old western part of Lithuania. In 1839, she married Feliks Tański, but the couple soon separated and divorced. In 1845, after the death of her father, she was forced to leave the family nest and live on her own. As a consequence, she went through different stages of social status as a lonely woman: from a resident subordinated to the host family to an independent owner of a mansion. The model of life she chose determined her everyday existence, interpersonal and social relations. All those factors, which had a direct influence on her, are mirrored in her family correspondence and her personal diary, which she started to write as an older person. The legacy of Kazimiera Białłozorówna-Tańska is stored in the Manuscript Department of the National Library in Warsaw (Zakład Rękopisów Biblioteki Narodowej w Warszawie). It consists of the letters written to the members of Kończą family in 1874-1884, the correspondence with her sister, Zofia Römer, 1844-1888, and few letters from friends and acquaintances. However, the most significant and worth of attention is her diary, written in the years 1870-1875 and 1883-1884. Both the correspondence and the diary might be analyzed as separate units or taken a whole. These historical sources record and mirror the private life of a noble, landowning family throughout nearly half of a century. They also present the place and position of a lonely woman in the upper class society, including her role in the family, financial matters, family care, chances of becoming independent, intimate and private world, way of creating a circle of friends and acquaintances, cultural praxis and social life - all those phenomena seen through female eyes. [From the publication]
