Forgotten Polish Women Writers: Discovering Their Lost History is a digitized cultural collection. The goal of the project is to publicize information and popularize the profiles of forgotten Polish women writers in the community, conveying their place in literature, culture, community, and also in the collective mind. Our goals with this project also include promoting internal humanistic studies and introducing these Polish women writers into regional and national history, literature, culture, teaching, education, national tradition, and identity.
The Forgotten Polish Women Writers: Discovering Their Lost History collection contains biographies, pictures, works, and other information about the women writes that displays their place in the history of literature; their roles; identity; activity; and their individual and collective engagement in the community, in the public, and in culture. This collection’s digital resources not only uncover the lost and forgotten history of literature, but also directly present the everyday life of women. The collection commonizes and promotes their literary works, literary essays, adaptations and renditions, translations, and personal documents. With this information, we can discover information about patriotic and citizenship attitudes presented from the perspective of regional and national history.
The collection is also an effort to restore knowledge of these forgotten Polish women writers and their personal history. The realization of this project also strives to deepen society’s interest in literature, history, culture; specifically the history of Polish women and women writers. The project also seeks to popularize and promote this knowledge, which does not present itself in many social circles outside of the sphere of education. The project also commonizes academic studies related to women’s history of literature in and outside of the academic environment locally, nationally, and internationally.
We present profiles of specific Polish women writers, their biographies, social activity, literary works, other works outside of the realm of literature, and their accomplishments and roles. This description of their images from the 19th and 20th centuries, in the context of their works, and their lives in literature and culture, leads to a new path in research on Polish national legacy. It creates foundations for further research and deepened studies on significant questions for Polish cultural heritage, literature, and Polish national identity.
In order to fully draw the attention of the works of the forgotten Polish women writers to a wide audience, we utilize collected resources in digital libraries from The Federation of Digital Libraries (pol. Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych), linking directly to the accessible works.
Aiming to explicitly identify the women writers, we also utilize the international card index of model entries VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, whose task is to standardize description variants of personal entries used in library catalogs throughout the world.
The Forgotten Polish Women Writers website is an open educational source. This means that the shared material is free and belongs in the public domain, and is published through the Creative Commons license. This allows visitors to use it repeatedly. Those visiting the website can freely copy, share, and modify (in agreement with Creative Commons), under the condition of respecting the copyright laws of the creators. This means citing sources, and not taking advantage of them for financial gain nor sharing any other information for similar reasons.
The Forgotten Polish Women Writers: Discovering Their Lost History portal is available through the Creative Commons license BY-NC, recognizing authorization that uses non-commercial 4.0 text license.
This condition, however, does not include relative works (they can be included with a different license).
The license does not affect works in the public domain, as their copyright property law may have expired. They can be used freely, without any limitations. However, in the effort of respecting personal copyright law, it is important to indicate the last name, or pseudonym of the author, the title, and source (link to the specific digital library), and the date of access.
How should a citation look?
Biography:
Morzycka Faustyna, [online] Forgotten Polish Women Writers: Discovering Their Lost History [accessed 12.05.2024]. Available on the website: https://zapomnianepisarkipolskie.uws.edu.pl/index.php/pisarki?view=article&id=22:morzycka-faustyna&catid=20:pisarki
Works in the public domain:
Morzycka, Faustyna (864-1910), About patrimony, as in, how a peasant dealt with the Germans: from the story “Placówka '' by Bolesław Prus, http://polona.pl/preview/78c3dbc7-04a9-482b-8185-593d06092869, [accessed 19.04.2024].
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