{{Short description|Polish poet and novelist}}{{More citations needed|date=March 2025}}thumb|200px|Maria Ilnicka. '''Maria Ilnicka''', {{nee}} '''Majkowska''' (1825–1897) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and journalist. She was the founder and editor of the magazine ''Bluszca'' (Ivy), which documented the Polish women's movement, from 1865 to 1896.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lorence-Kot |first=Bogna |title=Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective |last2=Winiarz |first2=Adam |date=2004 |publisher=Stanford University Press |pages=206–220 |chapter=Chapter 11 The Polish Women’s Movement to 1914 |doi=10.1515/9780804767071-013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Phillips |first=Ursula |title=The Heathen: A Novel |date=2012 |publisher=Cornell University Press |chapter=Introduction |doi=10.1515/9781501757761-002 |via=De Gruyter}}</ref>
She took part in the January Uprising against Russia, serving as an archivist of Polish National Government. After the collapse of the uprising she was briefly imprisoned.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}
In the period between 1870 and 1890 she was active in the literary salons of Warsaw. She was author of idyllic comedy and wrote poetry as well as a novel. She also translated the work of Walter Scott and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.{{cn|date=April 2026}}
== Personal life == Her father was a colonel in the Polish military.<ref name=":0" /> Her husband was exiled to Siberia following the 1863 uprising.<ref name=":0" />
==Works== *Maids Konopianki (Panny Konopianki) *Name-day of good mother (Imieniny dobrej mamy) *Illustrated jewel-box of Poland – the rhyming history of Poland with music by Stanisław Moniuszko (Ilustrowany skarbczyk Polski - rymowana historia Polski z muzyką Stanisława Moniuszki)
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== See also == {{Commons category|Maria Ilnicka}} *Positivism in Poland
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