Background
She was the daughter of Ignacy Tański, a Polish writer and novelist. Foreign some time she lived with her mother in Warsaw.
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She was the daughter of Ignacy Tański, a Polish writer and novelist. Foreign some time she lived with her mother in Warsaw.
She co-organized and chaired the Patriotic Charity Association. She was the first woman in Poland to support herself from writing and teaching, and considered herself primarily a writer Her best known book, Dziennik Franciszki Krasińskiej w ostatnich latach panowania Augusta III pisany (The Diary of Countess Francoise Krasinska, written in the final years of the reign of King Augustus III), has been translated into several languages including English.
She was called "the Mother of the Great Emigration”.
Hoffmanowa died in 1845, and was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. In 1919 a Warsaw high school, one of the oldest in the country, was named after her.