1. Maria Konopnicka was one of the most important poets of Poland's Positivist period.
11 Facts About Maria Konopnicka
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Maria Konopnicka was home-schooled and spent a year at a convent pension of the Sisters of Eucharistic Adoration in Warsaw.
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Maria Konopnicka made her debut as a writer in 1870 with the poem, "W zimowy poranek".
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Maria Konopnicka gained popularity after the 1876 publication of her poem, "W gorach", which was praised by future Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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Maria Konopnicka's life has been described as "turbulent", including extramarital romances, deaths, and mental illnesses in the family.
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Maria Konopnicka was a friend of a Polish woman poet of the Positivist period, Eliza Orzeszkowa, and of the painter and activist Maria Dulebianka.
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Maria Konopnicka would spend most springs and summers there, but she would still travel about Europe in fall and winter.
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Maria Konopnicka would try her hand at many genres of literature, such as reportage sketches, narrative memoirs, psychological portrait studies and others.
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Maria Konopnicka composed a poem about the execution of the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet.
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Emmet was executed by the British authorities in Dublin in 1803, but Maria Konopnicka published her poem on the topic in 1908.
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Maria Konopnicka's translated works include Ada Negri's Fatalita and Tempeste, published in Poland in 1901.