Eliza Orzeszkowa’s novel Gloria Victis, devoted to the January Uprising, is considered a turning point in the transition of Polish 19th-century culture from the domination of Positivism ideas to the national concept. Educated in the traditions of the pre-partition, multinational Republic of Poland, Eliza Orzeszkowa was keenly interested in the situation of the minority, primarily the Jewish minority. Her works, especially temporarily withheld by the Russian censorship “Meir Ezofowicz”,\u00a0<\/em>(1878) were aimed at mutual understanding and reconciliation between the Polish society and local Jewish communities.<\/p>\n Eliza Orzeszkowa, n\u00e9e Paw\u0142owska, was born in Mi\u0142kowszczyzna in present-day Belarus, into a family of gentry and intelligentsia. She was married twice, with Piotr Orzeszko (1858) and Stanis\u0142aw Nahorski (1894). From 1869, after the sale of the family property, she lived in Gron and made a living by writing.<\/p>\n In 1904, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (becoming a competitor of Henryk Sienkiewicz), for her work in which “the human heart beats”. In her novels. she dealt with the problems of the Polish gentry after the January Uprising, poor ideological intelligentsia, Ruthenian and Jewish people.<\/p>\n