Maria Dąbrowska

Maria Dąbrowska, née Szumska (1889-1965), the daughter of ruined small landowners, grew up at the manor of Russów, near Kalisz, then studied natural sciences, economics and sociology in Lausanne and Brussels from 1907 to 1914. Won over to the cooperative movement, to which she devoted several studies, she worked at the Ministry of Agriculture from 1918 to 1934. She translated Samuel Pepys's Diary, received the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935 and signed the Letter of the Thirty-Four against censorship. She died in Warsaw on 19 May 1965.

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• NovelNoce i dnieMaria Dąbrowska · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature