Gabriela Zapolska

Maria Gabriela Stefania KorwinPiotrowska , known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays,novels, 177 short stories, 252 works of journalism, one film script, and over 1,500 letters.

Zapolska was born onMarch 1857 in Podhajce, to a family of Polish gentry on the territory ruled by AustriaHungary after the Third and final Partition of Poland, . Her father was a marshal of Volhynian szlachta. Zapolska studied at the Sacr Coeur Institute and in the Institute of Education and Science in Lww. In 1876 she was forced by her family to marry a Polish lieutenant in the Tsarist guard, Konstanty niekoBocki, but soon left him and divorced in 1888. During the years of 18791880 she lived in Warsaw, where she acted in an amateur theatre ran by the Philanthropy Society. In 1881 Zapolska became pregnant by an outofwedlock relationship and left her family. The same year she made her own short story debut by Jeden dzie z ycia ry . The following year, in 1882, she became a professional actress in the Krakw theatre, and assumed the pseudonym of Gabriela Zapolska. She also acted in Pozna, and in travelling troupes throughout the Congress Poland. In October 1888 she reportedly made a

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