Theresa Pulszky | |
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 Lithograph of Theresa Pulszky (1852) | |
| Born | Theresa Walter 7 January 1819 |
| Died | September 4, 1866 (aged 47) |
| Occupation(s) | Author and translator |
| Years active | 1850–1859 |
| Notable work | Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady (1850) Tales and Traditions of Hungary (1852) White, Red, Black (1853) |
Theresa Pulszky (7 January 1819 – 4 September 1866), also known as Terézia Pulszky, was an Austro-Hungarian author and translator.[1] Born in a Viennese family, she moved to Pest, Hungary after marrying her husband Ferenc Pulszky. Her experiences in Hungary and her subsequent escape from the country during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 to London, England was written down in diary form and published in 1850 as the highly acclaimed book Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady. She and her husband published several more works together from their later experiences and in translated Hungarian stories, poems, and culture for English audiences. Together with her family, she traveled across the United States alongside abdicated Hungarian leader Lajos Kossuth in 1853, resulting in another positively reviewed book on their experiences in America.
The catalog in WorldCat lists 22 editions of her memoir and 24 editions of the travelogue she wrote with her husband.[2] The digital collection in the New York Public Library holds one of her letters from 1854.[3]
- ^ Ákos Farkas (2018). "Reviewed work: Worlds of Hungarian Writing: National Literature as Intercultural Exchange, Kiséry, András; Komáromy, Zsolt and Varga, Zsuzsanna (Eds)". The Slavonic and East European Review. 96 (2): 324–327. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.96.2.0324. JSTOR 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.96.2.0324.
- ^ "Pulszky, Theresa". worldcat.org. WorldCat. 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Pulszky, Theresa". NYPL Digital Collections.