Orphan Girl: A Transaction, or an Account of the Entire Life of an Orphan Girl by Way of Plaintful Threnodies in the Year 1685. the

by Anna Stanislawska

Writing years after terrible events which colored her life forever, Anna Stanislawska (1651-1701) meticulously reconstructed in an epic poem the episode of her forced marriage to the deviant son of the Castellan of Krak?w. He was deemed to be so ugly that Stanislawska called her new husband Aesop, who was said to have been one of the ugliest men in Antiquity.

Barry Keane's idiomatic and inventive verse translation brings to life this half-forgotten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0866985476
• ISBN13: 9780866985475
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 129 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"