Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism in Poland during foreign Partitions. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
She was born to a noble Pawowski family in Milkowszczyzna, and died in Grodno nearby. At the age of sixteen, Eliza married Piotr Orzeszko, a Polish nobleman twice her own age, who was exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising of 1863. They were legally separated in 1869. She married again in 1894, after a 30yearlong loving relationship with Stanisaw Nahorski who died a few years later.
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