On the manuscript list of women writers by Adam Bartoszewicz from the mid-nineteenth century

Abstract

This article deals with two manuscripts preserved in the State Archive in Łódź, in collection number 592 of the Bartoszewicz Family Archive, written by Adam Bartoszewicz, the senior of the family: Excellent Polish Women, Especially Famous in History as well as in the Literary Field and The Inventory of Famous Polish Women, namely Literary Scholars Alphabetically Arranged by A.[dama] B.[artoszewicz] 1859 [– name index]. Their common denominator is the history of Polish women, with an emphasis on literary and translation works up to the 1870s. The purpose of the draft is to describe the contents of two manuscripts in terms of how the author created a potential dictionary, its sources of information, press queries and the shape of the inventory. It is not known what publishing plans were associated with the briefs, but they can be treated as important source material in the history of the construction of knowledge about women’s writing through the middle decades of the nineteenth century.