"[…] róże cudownie kwitną" : opowieść o Helenie Modrzejewskiej i kwiatach

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"[…] róże cudownie kwitną" : opowieść o Helenie Modrzejewskiej i kwiatach

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title:	"[…] róże cudownie kwitną" : opowieść o Helenie Modrzejewskiej i kwiatach
alternative title:	"Roses are blooming wonderful" : the story of Helena Modjeska and flowers
author:	Kędziora Alicja
editor:	Kędziora Alicja , Orzechowski Emil
book title:	Spotkania u Modrzejewskiej
date of publication :	2019
place of publication : name of publisher:	Kraków : Księgarnia Akademicka
pages:	27-52
ISBN:	978-83-8138-180-2
eISBN:	978-83-8138-190-1
series:	Arte et Ratione
DOI:	10.12797/9788381381802.02
language:	Polish
book language:	Polish
abstract in English:	"(…) roses are blooming wonderful, and you can smell violets just about everywhere in the garden", Modjeska wrote to Teofilia and Józef Chałpowski in December, enjoying the beauty of flowers in the garden of her California residence. As she reported to her sister-in-law, Anna Chłapowska, in mid-November, apart from roses, "there were in full bloom (…) heliotropes, oranges, and lemons", and in May - as she reported to her friend, Maria Faleńska – "only fuchsia, vine". In July in Lvov, she was selling flowers at a charity fundraiser picnic and within an hour she sold them for 200 florins! In June, she received a basket of flowers with a seven feet high white-and-red star, so beautiful that it taken down on a photograph. Flowers were Modjeska's companions throughout her life: her theatrical costumes were decorated with them, she drew them on the margins of her scripts, gave them to her friends. The roses she cultivated were famous all over California. One of her most memorable stage characters, Adrianna, dies of the smell of a poisoned bouquet. In the scene of madness, Ophelia looks helplessly at the buds in her hands. The story of flowers in Modjeska's life is no less interesting than the story of her life.
keywords in English:	Modjeska, theatre, flowers, Adrianna Lecouvreur
number of pulisher's sheets:	1,6
affiliation:	Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej : Instytut Kultury
type:	chapter
subtype:	academic paper

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