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The Commonplace Book of Lady Zimmer from 1818 to 1837
MAREŠOVÁ, Dana
This bachelor´s thesis is called "The Commonplace Book of Lady Zimmer from 1818 to 1837" and its aim is to form a critical edition accompanied by a codicological and a content description and by an overall analysis of the book as well. The work is divided into four main chapters. The first one deals with the establishment, origin and commonplace books characteristics, afterwards it is focused on the 19th century and it descends up to the 20th century. The second chapter treats the topic of a division of the girls especially from the urban environment, their access to education and destiny to get married, and the final part of this chapter solves the level of the girls´ language knowledge and their experience as readers. The third chapter contains a critical edition which is accompanied by an interior and exterior analysis of the commonplace book of lady Zimmer, these parts are followed by the used language items analysis as well as of mistakes in the entries, poetical means, and last but not least the analysis of the topic and also the art depiction. On the basis of the analysis of this book the fourth chapter emerged and its aim is to show the environment from which the owner originated, her family background and her friends. It reveals her personality step by step as a woman originated from the urban environment living her whole life in the household of a family publishing house owner. The whole work is finished with a conclusion which contains the analysis of all gained information from this very special lady commonplace book from the beginning of the 19th century. The work is accompanied by a list of used sources and literature as well as by diagrams, tables, font samples and picture part, and a family tree of Jan Jakub Ryba which shows certain relationships with the Zimmers. One of the attachments represents the lady Zimmer´s husband´s publishing activity.
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