[PAJZDERSKA Helena Janina, pseud. "Hajota" - portrait photograph]. [linen after 1888]. Photograph in oval form. 8,...

[PAJZDERSKA Helena Janina, pseud. "Hajota" - portrait photograph]. [linen after 1888]. Photograph in oval form. 8.7x5.4 cm on original base form. 10.1x6.2 cm, of unknown authorship.
The writer shown in bust. On the lower margin, under the photograph, a handwritten inscription in ink: "Hajota". Photo pasted on original cardboard backing with blue border. Minor stains, good condition overall.
H. J. Pajzderska née Boguska, primo voto Rogozinska, pseudonym "Hajota", "Lascaro" (1862-1927) - writer, poet, translator. At boarding schools she learned foreign languages, which enabled her to work as a translator. She made her debut with the novel Narcissus Ewuni, published in the Family Chronicle 1875, when she was only 13 years old. Her acquaintances with Jadwiga Łuszczewska (Deotyma), the editor of "Ivy" Maria Ilnitskaya and the editor of the Family Chronicle, Aleksandra Borkowska, facilitated the start of her literary career. Her literary works and reviews appeared in many magazines. She translated Charles Dickens, James Cooper, Joseph Conrad, Herbert George Wells, Honoré de Balzac, Anatole France, Guy de Maupassant and many other French and English writers. She wrote travel pieces inspired by her stay in Africa. In 1888 she married Stefan Szolc-Rogozinski, a well-known traveler. She and her husband traveled to Africa, to the island of Fernando Po off the coast of Cameroon. On the island, they purchased a 500-acre cocoa plantation and conducted research on the Bubi tribe. At the same time, they took part in expeditions to other African countries, including Nigeria. The writer took part in an expedition to the Pico Basilé volcano, Fernando Po's highest peak. The couple stayed in Africa until 1891.After returning to Poland, the writer filed for divorce, which was carried out in 1895.She remarried in 1904, to the architect Tomasz Pajzderski. She was an active participant in the women's emancipation movement. During the First World War she was active in the War Victims Relief Society. Some of Helena Janina Pajzderska's novellas were translated into foreign languages: Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, French (Wikipedia).