Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska (1819–1890) was a Polish playwright and poet.
Born on 16 April 1819 in Stary Gostków near
Łęczyca
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in a
Polish
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szlachta
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family of Lipscy to Jacob Lipski and Marjania Zaluska, she spent her life in the
Prussian partition
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, including the
Grand Duchy of Posen
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(Poznań). She had one brother, Konstanty, who died when she was six.
She was married in 1838 to Stanisław
Baranowski
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(1806–1843), who was an officer in the Polish forces during the
January Uprising
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. They had four children:
* Maria-Antonina Baranowska (1840–1880), mother of noted Pole
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* Aniela Zofia Baranowska (1842 – c. 1917) (married to
Edmund Taczanowski
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in 1860)
* Stefan Baranowski
* Stanisława Baranowska (1844–1927)
After her husband's death in 1843, while she was pregnant with their daughter Stanisława, she became the head of the family at the age of 24, and took care of their lands in Marszew.
She had many friends and colleagues among the Polish writers of the
Great Emigration
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, some of whom visited her manor in Marszew. They included Karol Baliński,
Teofil Lenartowicz
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, and sponsored and organized various festivities or organizations (such as the Society of Scientific Help for Girls (''Towarzystwo Pomocy Naukowej dla dziewcząt'')).
She wrote several plays for the local theater in
Pleszew
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History
The oldest permanen ...
, likely inspired by and with the encouragement of Stanisław Sczaniecki from
Karmin
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. She also wrote many poems, some of which she dedicated to the great Polish poet
Adam Mickiewicz
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. Most of her works were dedicated to rekindling the patriotic spirit of Poles, and used many elements from myths and legends of
Greater Poland
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. Some of them were printed in the women's press ("Lechu", "Dwutygodniku dla Kobiet").
She died on 15 December 1890 in Posen.