Własny głos w autorstwie kobiecym w pierwszej połowie XIX w. na przykładzie Klementyny z Tańskich Hoffmanowej i Narcyzy Żmichowskiej
The Voice of One’s Own: female authors in Poland in the first half of the 19th century on the example of Klementyna Hoffmanowa née Tańska and Narcyza Żmichowska

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the approaches to authorship of two female Polish writers of the early 19th century: Klementyna Hoffmanowa née Tańska and Narcyza Żmichowska. The analysis is based on the concept of the voice of one’s own, borrowed from Virginia Woolf’s theoretical assumptions about the history of female authorship. The analyzed texts include a selection of the authors’ diaries and letters as well as several of their pedagogical and literary works. The case of Hoffmanowa shows that pathbreaking female authors on the publishing market usually wrote about less prestigious subjects and reproduced social and cultural stereotypes about women’s roles. Female authors’ own voices made themselves heard more clearly in the next generation of publishing women as illustrated in the article on the case of Żmichowska.

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