Klementyna Hoffmanowa

Klementyna Hoffmanowa, born Klementyna Tańska (23 November 1798 – 21 September 1845) was a Polish novelist, playwright, editor, translator, teacher and activist. She was the first woman in Poland to support herself from writing and teaching, as well as one of Poland's first writers of children's literature.

She made her debut in 1819 with a moralizing treatise A Souvenir After a Good Mother. In the 1820s, she edited a popular magazine for children and published several children books, that have won a wide audience over several generations. She also published a number of novels, including: The Letters of Elżbieta Rzeczycka to her friend Urszula (1824) and, arguably her best known work, The Diary of Countess Françoise Krasinska (1825), translated into several languages, and recounted as one of the first Polish psychological novels.

Selected works A list includes original Polish titles. 1819: Pamiątka po dobrej Matce przez dobrą Polkę 1823: Wiązanie Helenki 1824: Listy Elżbiety Rzeczyckiej do przyjaciółki Urszuli za panowania Augusta III pisane 1825: Druga książeczka Helenki 1825: Dziennik Franciszki Krasińskiej w ostatnich latach Augusta III pisany (The Diary of Countess Françoise Krasinska) 1830: Powieści z Pisma świętego (stories from the Old Testament) 1832: Rozrywki dla Dzieci 1833: Wybór pism, volumes I–X 1833: Biografie znakomitych Polaków i Polek 1839: Karolina 1841: Krystyna 1845: Jan Kochanowski w Czarnolesie 1849: Pisma pośmiertne 1849: O powinnościach kobiet 1851: Pismo święte wybrane z ksiąg Starego i Nowego Zakonu objaśnione uwagami pobożnych uczonych i ofiarowane matkom i dzieciom przez Autorkę Pamiątki po dobrej matce (stories from the Bible)

Posthumous publications: 1857–1859: Pisma, volumes I-XI 1876: Dzieła, volumes I-XII (edited by N. Żmichowska) 1898: Wybór Dzieł, volumes I-IV (edited by P. Chmielowski)