Published : 2024-11-29

From Senator's Daughter to Governess

Live and Activity of Lucyna Mieroszewska (1817-1893)

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Lucyna Mieroszewska, born in 1817 in a well-to-do family of landowners, was one of the first Polish female authors of educational handbooks and early reader books for children. Raised within the elite society of Kraków and prepared for a life in the realm of the affluent landed gentry, she lost the foundations of her existence as a result of family, political and economic circumstances. From the position of a senator's daughter, she was reduced to the role of governess and companion to an unrelated family. As a result of her support for the January Uprising in 1863, she could not choose her place of residence. Nevertheless, she accepted the changes in her life and made effort to support herself. She was involved in raising her sisters' children and girls from Galician landowner families. At the same time, she pursued her own literary and pedagogical interests, and published her own works as well as translations from foreign languages. This article aims to verify the basic biographical information and fill in the gaps in her biography based on handwritten sources which have not been used previously.

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Lucyna Mieroszewska, education, governess, upbringing, Galicia, January Uprising



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Lorens, B. (2024). From Senator’s Daughter to Governess: Live and Activity of Lucyna Mieroszewska (1817-1893). Biografistyka Pedagogiczna [Biographical Studies in Education], 9(1), 515–538. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2024.09.04

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1