Reinventing Romantic Poetry : Russian Women Poets of the Mid-nineteenth Century

Khvoshchinskaia, lines 18–19: #   u  (  ,    u       ,  ... [.. .] ...

s sestrami” (My sisters and I used to). Among other changes, he re- moved the last six lines of the poem without any indication ...

create the impression that the ring interests her by reminding her of the sad day of her wedding. Perhaps Zotov felt uncomfortab ...

Gerbel’ praised Khvoshchinskaia as a prose writer, while disparaging her as a poet, specifically taking her to task for “’Vy uly ...

tions, excisions, and suppression of her poetry that Khvoshchinskaia suffered at the hands of men critics, editors, and publishe ...

Khvoshchinskaia’s poetic corpus—and there is no reason to believe that Zotov chose her best or most representative work to rewri ...

down to insipid, dull work” (“Priniat’sia... za blednyi, vialyi trud”). An- other poem begins, “Ne mogu ia priniat’sia za delo” ...

tional stress from her responsibilities as breadwinner under difficult cir- cumstances, she also appears to have enjoyed the fre ...

and more understandable than the published versions. Beyond not gain- ing recognition for her poetry, however, Khvoshchinskaia m ...

6 .Karolina Pavlova Over the past few decades Karolina Pavlova (born Jaenisch, 1807–93) has become the best-known Russian woman ...

of her generation.^4 Finally, we shall look at a series of works Pavlova wrote over a twenty-year period about the position of w ...

men writers by offering them a forum to present their works. It also gave them a unique opportunity to interact on a more or les ...

over twenty years, from the mid- 1820 s until the end of the 1840 s. The attendees, who included such luminaries as Zhukovsky, K ...

of her father’s German blood in her. I can’t stand all these German and half-German women.’“^12 Indeed, Pavlova’s linguistic abi ...

to her. Although he subsequently broke their engagement, even this temporary connection with him has led to several articles tha ...

well as her husband’s, Nikolai Pavlov’s, journalistic connections. Atten- dees at the salon included such literary figures as th ...

tuals of nonaristocratic origins (raznochintsy). When a collection of Pavlova’s poetry appeared in 1863 , radical critics ridicu ...

and the significance of the break for her work (Karolina Pavlova, 41–44). One does not find similar discussions of how marital w ...

first time but also in her introduction placed Pavlova’s life in a feminist literary context. Since then Pavlova has become a fo ...

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