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Eliza Orzeszkowa
1841 - 1910 · Novelist · b. in Milkowszczyzna
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Polish novelist (1841-1910)
Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Key achievements
- 01Author of the novel On the Niemen
- 02Leading Positivist writer
- 03Advocate of women's rights
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