Description
In her never-finished My Life's Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays a myriad of roles, including child bride, wife, mother, lover, adventuress, slave trader, writer, and home-taught physician. She successfully carved out a viable niche for herself, navigating the multicultural, multiethnic, and varied religious environment of Europe's eastern periphery. Despite limited expectations for female professionals, she became a highly sought after and well-respected practitioner of the medical arts and rose to the position of court physician to Turkish pashas and Hungarian princes, and even to Sultan Mustafa III. My Life's Travels and Adventures-part memoir, part autobiography, and part travelogue-provides a view into eighteenth-century social, professional, and gender interactions and weaves a rich narrative replete with vignettes of love, travel, and popular superstitions important to our historical, ethnographic, and religious understanding of the era.
This edition brings the entirety of this personal and idiosyncratic memoir to English for the first time.
About the Author
Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa (1718-after 1763) was a Catholic Polish woman who was known as Poland's first female doctor. WladyslawRoczniak is professor of history at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. He is the author of A History of Hospitals in Pre-Modern Poland from the Twelfth through the Eighteenth Century.
Reviews
"Thanks entirely to the discovery of her lost memoir at the end of the nineteenth century, Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa enjoys the reputation of being the first female doctor in Polish history. And how all this came about is a fascinating story, vividly conveyed in Roczniak's tour-de-force translation. . . . Pilsztynowa's compelling story as told in this splendid critical edition is worthy of her legacy." -- Barry Keane, University of Warsaw
"With this critical edition, Roczniak has put forth an important, exciting contribution. . . that is sure to grab the attention of students and scholars studying eighteenth-century women's writing." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *
Book Information
ISBN 9781649590046
Author Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Iter Press
Publisher Iter Press
Weight(grams) 538g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 166mm * 20mm
This edition brings the entirety of this personal and idiosyncratic memoir to English for the first time.
About the Author
Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa (1718-after 1763) was a Catholic Polish woman who was known as Poland's first female doctor. WladyslawRoczniak is professor of history at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. He is the author of A History of Hospitals in Pre-Modern Poland from the Twelfth through the Eighteenth Century.
Reviews
"Thanks entirely to the discovery of her lost memoir at the end of the nineteenth century, Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa enjoys the reputation of being the first female doctor in Polish history. And how all this came about is a fascinating story, vividly conveyed in Roczniak's tour-de-force translation. . . . Pilsztynowa's compelling story as told in this splendid critical edition is worthy of her legacy." -- Barry Keane, University of Warsaw
"With this critical edition, Roczniak has put forth an important, exciting contribution. . . that is sure to grab the attention of students and scholars studying eighteenth-century women's writing." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *
Book Information
ISBN 9781649590046
Author Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Iter Press
Publisher Iter Press
Weight(grams) 538g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 166mm * 20mm
