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ORZESZKO
or ORSZESZKO, ELIZA (1842– ), See also:Polish novelist, was See also:born near See also:Grodno, of the See also:noble See also:family of Pawlowski
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In her sixteenth See also:year she married Piotr Orzeszko, a Polish nobleman, who was exiled to See also:Siberia after the insurrection of 1863
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She wrote a See also:series of powerful novels and sketches, dealing with the social conditions of her See also:country
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See also:Eli Makower (1875) describes the relations between the See also:Jews and the Polish See also:nobility, and See also:Heir Ezofowicz (1878) the conflict between Jewish orthodoxy and See also:modern liberalism
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On the Niemen (1888), perhaps her best See also:work, deals with the Polish See also:aristocracy, and Lost Souls (1886) and See also:Chain (1888) with rural See also:life in See also: |
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