The Overlooked Juvenile Correspondence of Henryk Sienkiewicz

Abstract

The author reminds us the juvenile correspondence entitled Letters from Podlasia. I. In the Question of the Reform of the Education of Women by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a correspondence overlooked by bibliographers and historians of literature. The author reveals in it his standpoint towards the problems which were then broadly discussed. Those problems differed from the opinions advocated by the majority of the representatives of the generation of positivists. They call for the education of young women as regards pedagogy to prepare them to play the role of mothers in a responsible way.