Eliza Orzeszkowa
Polish novelist who championed the rights of women and Jews in her fiction and was one of the most prominent figures of Polish positivism. On the Niemen is her masterpiece of peasant life on the eastern borderlands.
Works
- On the NiemenNovel of peasant life and family conflict along the Niemen river in Lithuania
- MartaTale of a woman raising children alone while her husband travels abroad
- Meir EzofowiczNovel about Jewish merchant's assimilation and identity during Russian oppression
- The BoorStory exploring peasant labor, exploitation, and rural economic conditions
- ArgonauciNovel about Jewish pioneers settling in American frontier seeking freedom