Maria Ilnicka, maiden name Majkowska (1825 or 1827 — 1897) was a Polish

Poland

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 poet

Poet

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, novelist, translator and journalist

Journalist

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. She took part in the January Uprising

January Uprising

The January Uprising was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire...

 against Russia

Russia

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, as archivist of Polish National Government. After the collapse of the uprising, for short time, she was imprisoned. Ilnicka was advocate of feminism

Feminism in Poland

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 and organic work

Organic work

Organic work is a term coined by 19th century Polish positivists, denoting an ideology demanding that the vital powers of the nation be spent on labour rather than fruitless national uprisings. The basic principles of the organic work included education of the masses and increase of the economical...

. In 1865, she was leading redactor weekly magazine for woman “Bluszcz”.
In 1870-1890, at Warsaw

Warsaw

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 she gives rise to salon

Salon (gathering)

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 literary

Literary society

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. She was authoress of idyllic comedy, poem and novel. She also translate work of Walter Scott

Walter Scott

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 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Works

• Maids Konopianki (Panny Konopianki)
• Name-day of good mother (Imieniny dobrej mamy)
• Illustrated jewel-box of Poland – the rhyming history of Poland with music by Stanisław Moniuszko
  Stanisław Moniuszko
  Stanisław Moniuszko was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
  
    (Ilustrowany skarbczyk Polski - rymowana historia Polski z muzyką Stanisława Moniuszki)

See also

• Positivism in Poland
  Positivism in Poland
  Positivism in Poland was a socio-cultural movement that defined progressive thought in literature and social sciences of Partitioned Poland following the suppression of the 1863 January Uprising against the occupying army of Imperial Russia...