TY - JOUR N2 - Twentieth-century historians of Polish literature (e.g. Henryk Markiewicz and Grażyna Borkowska) unanimously agree that Waleria Marrené-Morzkowska was at best a second-rank writer. It seems that such negative opinions are founded, fi rst of all, on the critics’ low view of her favourite genre, the popular romance; and secondly on a critical survey of her work written in 1966 by Irena Wyczańska for a multivolume Guide to Polish Literature of the 19th and 20th Century (Obraz literatury polskiej XIX i XX wieku). This article attempts to revise the established view of her fiction by analyzing some of works, i.e. two novels, Leonora’s Husband (Mąż Leonory, 1883) and The Little Blue Book (Błękitna książeczka, 1876), and the short story A Duplex Woman (Dwoista, 1889). This reappraisal draws on the favourable assessments of her work of the first generation of her readers, among them writer Teodor Jeske-Choiński, literary historian Henryk Galle and Piotr Chmielowski, a leading literary scholar of the late 19th century. In their view her work rose above the level of run-of-the-mill romances and didactic fi ction thanks to her skill in combining the conventions of the realist novel with plots of popular romance. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113538/PDF/RL%203-19%204-BANOT.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113538 PY - 2019 IS - No 3 (354) EP - 314 DO - 10.24425/rl.2019.130045 KW - Polish literature of the 19th century KW - popular romances KW - feminist fiction KW - Waleria Marrené-Morzkowska (1832–1903) A1 - Banot, Aleksandra E. PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2019.12.10 T1 - (Anti)romances of Waleria Marrené-Morzkowska SP - 301 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113538 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -