Z Archiwum Kobiet
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Review: Bronisława Waligórska, Listy z cytadeli 1886. Ancilla libri Monika Rudaś-Grodzka. Warszawa 2018. Seria „Archiwum Kobiet”. [T. 1]

Summary/Abstract: The review contains a scrutiny of an edition of Bronisława Waligórska’s “Listy z cytadeli 1886” (“Letters from the Citadel 1886;” Warsaw 2018) and a characteristics of the series “Archiwum Kobiet” (“Women Archive”) which starts the mentioned series. The publication in question offers a documentary edition of a dozen or so handwritten letters by a member of “Proletariat” political party to her sister composed in the year 1886 in The Warsaw Citadel where Bronisława Waligórska committed suicide, a reconstruction of the investigation, and the epistolographer’s biography. Assumptions of the series “Archiwum Kobiet” (“Women Archive”) are also subject of the review. The reviewer describes the guidelines for publishing woman private documents proposed by Monika Rudaś-Grodzka and the committee to the series, and attempts to evaluate the adopted editorial and biographical solutions.

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