Language: Polish

Jane Eyre translation: 1930

A Polish translator from English and author of children’s literature. Her other translations include Walter Scott’s Waverley, Rob Roy, and The Bride of Lammermoor, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities, as well as Woodrow Wilson’s memoirs. She wrote a children’s book entitled Pamiętniki Neptuna: Opowiadania dla dzieci, które lubią psy [Neptune’s Memoirs: Short Stories for Children Who Like Dogs].

Text by Kasia Szymanska

Sources: Irena Gruchała, ‘Herman Stachel – lwowski wydawca piśmiennictwa popularnego’, Folia Toruniensia 18 (2018), pp. 35-56; Dagmara Hadyna, ‘A Relayed Translation. Looking for the Source Text of the First Polish Translation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre’, Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 11.2 (2016),  pp. 73–81; Monika Roszkowska, ‘The Evolution of Translation Standards as Illustrated by the History of Polish Translations of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë,’ Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 2 (2013), pp. 43-57.