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Reading experiences of Czech authoress Karolina Světlá
VONDRÁČKOVÁ, Monika
The aimof this thesis is a research of reading experiences of Karolina Světlá (1830- 1899), one of the significant Czech authoress and representative of women´s emancipation in the second half of the 19. century. One of the main sources for this research are published editions of personal correspondence and memoirs, where wecan find particular references to home and foreign-language literature and affirmative or negative appreciation single works or writers, which she knows from her reading, follow up the changes of them and focus on the parts talking about a function of reading in the girl´s education and proper literature for women. Another important source is a personal archival file of this authoress, which is stored in the museum in Český Dub in northern Bohemia. Here we can discover, except 366 books from possession of Karolina Světlá and her husband, some personal hand-writing documents, which are illustrating her reading preferences (extracts from some books or bills from different bookstores). This thesis would like to create a reading biography of followed authoress, show the atmosphere and Czech literary world in the second half of the 19. century from the alternative point of view and reveal the way of thinking and ideas of important person with many cultural and social activities.
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