Gabriela Zapolska

Gabriela Zapolska, whose real name was Maria Gabriela Korwin-Piotrowska (1857-1921), was born in Volhynia into a family of landowners; her mother had been a dancer in Warsaw. Married at nineteen, in 1876, to an officer of the Russian imperial guard, she left him, broke with her family and went on the stage in Kraków in 1882. From 1889 to 1895 she lived in Paris and acted at Antoine's Théâtre-Libre and then at Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre. Back in Galicia, she wrote plays, novels and chronicles that caused scandal, married the painter Stanisław Janowski and died in Lviv in December 1921.

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• TheatreThe Morality of Mrs DulskaMoralność pani DulskiejGabriela Zapolska · 1906LiteraturePublic domain