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Benisławska, Konstancja (06-01-1747 - 08-11-1806)

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Short name Benisławska, Konstancja
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First name Konstancja
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Alternative name Konstancja z Ryków Benisławska
Date of birth 06-01-1747
Date of death 08-11-1806
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Place of birth Poland
Place of death Poland
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Religion / ideology Catholic
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Benisławska, Konstancja was ...
inspired by Mechtilde of Hackeborn (saint)
inspired by Bridget of Sweden (saint)
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Pieśni sobie śpiewane [Songs Sung to Myself] (1776) 0 0

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MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature Cf. - Ursula Philips, contribution NEWW nov. 2011 Ursula Phillips, Polish Women Authors: From the Middle Ages until 1800, in: A History of Central European Women's Writing, ed. Celia Hawkesworth, Palgrave 2001, p. 22-23.

from poor nobility from Livonia, received good education. Married Piotr Benisławski, from 1776 the chamberlain of the Polish court. She administered her husband's estate, rigorously raised her children. She founded a hospital in Rosoły for the poor. A collection of religious poems Songs Sung to Myself was written in the years 1774-1775, published in Vilnius in 1776 by her husband's brother, a Livonian canon, Konstanty Benisławski. Benisławska's poetry refers to seventeenth-century Baroque religious lyric poetry, associated with the Spanish mystics, especially the work of Teresa of Avila. -
alternative names: Benislawska Konstancja, Konstancja z Ryków Benislawska, Konstancja Benislawska,