Przypominanie. Konstancji Morawskiej powroty do przeszłości
The Reminding. Konstancja Morawska’s Returns to the Past

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the studies and biographical essays of Konstancja Morawska (mostly from the 1870s and 1880s), a writer who is usually forgotten and who has been unjustly neglected in the studies of women’s writing, and especially women’s history. Locating herself outside the mainstream of emancipatory transformations, Morawska tackled issues regarded today as the most important literary perspective of history, and characteristic of the literary role of “women in the archive” (the term used by Inga Iwasiów). She consciously promoted in her texts a new model of historical narrative based on the respect for biographical materials (and especially autobiographical writings) and the reliance on the fragmented plots and the ambiguity of documentary findings. Moreover, she advocated the need for the recovery of the “female story.” Exposing the difficulty in reaching the historical truth and recovering the diffused image of the past constituted the most important features of her writing. She implemented these theoretical assumptions in her works consistently and with inventiveness. Notably, her female characters are, inter alia, famous women of the Romantic generation, such as Klaudia Potocka, Joanna Grudzińska, or the wife of the Grand Duke Constantine.

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