"I live like on a steppe or the Elysian field" : Cracow in literary creation of Anna Libera

The article presents literary works of Anna Libera - a partly forgotten poet and writer, working in Cracow in the second half of the 19th century. She was probably the first woman in the former capital of Poland that actively fought for equality of rights for both sexes. Her emancipatory activity covers not only literature but also journalistic articles as well as social work. The writer created a unique, as for her times, picture of Cracow - not only as a spiritual capital of Poland, and home of Polish national identity but also as a place where every day takes place fight for women’s survival among general conventionality and stiff habits. The second, the real and sad picture of Cracow shows a primeval casde of Krak as a seat of conservatives - disapprovingly looking at female writers and these who wanted to lead their own life, educate themselves and achieve a substantial profession