This work is dedicated to the British author Jane Porter and her four-volume novel "Thaddeus of Warsaw," written in 1803. Porter's novel is a romance dealing with a fictitious Polish patriot Thaddeus Sobieski, who is in fact modelled on Tadeusz Ko ciuszko - Poland's national hero. Porter presents the brutal fate of the Polish Commonwealth during the Partitions and the adventures of Thaddeus Sobieski as an immigrant in London. My work tries to shed a new light on the depth of Polish-British cultural links on the basis of Porter's work. The study also shows the 'behind the scenes' of producing...
This work is dedicated to the British author Jane Porter and her four-volume novel "Thaddeus of Warsaw," written in 1803. Porter's novel is a romance ...