Anna Stanislawska (1651–1701) is the author of an extended autobiographical poetic work entitled Transaction or the Description of the Entire Life of an Orphan by Way of Plaintful Threnodies. Barry Keane is associate professor in translation and comparative studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Irish Drama in Poland.

• Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: One Body with Two Souls Entwined The Other Voice Historical Backdrop Stanislawska’s Early Life The Aesop Episode Olesnicki A Sacral Legacy Old Poland’s Feminist Zeitgeist An Other (and Yet the Same) Voice: A Note on the Translation Orphan Girl: The Olesnicki Episode Commentary Bibliography Index

Anna Stanislawska (1651–1701) is the author of an extended autobiographical poetic work entitled Transaction or the Description of the Entire Life of an Orphan by Way of Plaintful Threnodies. Barry Keane is associate professor in translation and comparative studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Irish Drama in Poland.

• Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: One Body with Two Souls Entwined The Other Voice Historical Backdrop Stanislawska’s Early Life The Aesop Episode Olesnicki A Sacral Legacy Old Poland’s Feminist Zeitgeist An Other (and Yet the Same) Voice: A Note on the Translation Orphan Girl: The Olesnicki Episode Commentary Bibliography Index

Anna Stanislawska (1651–1701) is the author of an extended autobiographical poetic work entitled Transaction or the Description of the Entire Life of an Orphan by Way of Plaintful Threnodies. Barry Keane is associate professor in translation and comparative studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Irish Drama in Poland.

• Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: One Body with Two Souls Entwined The Other Voice Historical Backdrop Stanislawska’s Early Life The Aesop Episode Olesnicki A Sacral Legacy Old Poland’s Feminist Zeitgeist An Other (and Yet the Same) Voice: A Note on the Translation Orphan Girl: The Olesnicki Episode Commentary Bibliography Index