[LUSZCZEWSKA Jadwiga]. Deotyma - A selection of poetry. Vol. 1-2. Warsaw, 1898, edited by Konstanty Trety. 16d, pp. [4], 216; [2]....

[LUSZCZEWSKA Jadwiga]. Deotyma - A selection of poetry. Vol. 1-2. Warsaw 1898, edited by Konstanty Trety. 16d, pp. [4], 216; [2], 255, [2]. Original cloth cover, gilt trim.
Bindings rubbed and dusty, yellowing of the covers and extreme pages, otherwise good condition. Foreign dedication.
J. Łuszczewska (1834-1908) - pseudonym of Deotyma - poetess and novelist of the Romantic period, improviser of poetry. Participant in Warsaw patriotic manifestations since 1860. In 1863-1865, she accompanied her father Waclaw Luszczewski into exile deep into Russia, after his arrest for deposing as a tsar's chamberlain. After returning from exile, she settled in Warsaw where she ran a literary salon from 1870.