Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Sapieha, Virgilia (birth)
Sapieha, Princess Paul (married)
Geboortedatum: 1904-05-16
Overlijdensdatum: 1966-02-24
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: USA
Poland (marriage)
Geboorteplaats: New York, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen: New York, New York, USA
Beroepen: television host
aristocrat
memoirist
Organisaties: DuMont
WNYC
Korte biografie: Virgilia Peterson was born in New York City, a daughter of Dr. Frederick Peterson. She married as her third husband Prince Paul Sapieha, a Polish aristocrat, with whom she had two children and lived in Poland for six years. She was known at that time as Princess Paul Sapieha. She left Poland just before Nazi Germany invaded the country in World War II. The couple divorced in 1950. She wrote the memoir Polish Profile (1940) and A Matter of Life and Death (1962), and served as the moderator of an episode of the ABC-TV panel show Author Meets the Critics in 1952.

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Polish Profile door Virgilia [Princess Paul Sapieha] Saphieha

An unexpected find while reading an excerpt from this book in the New Yorker Book of War Pieces. The excerpt told of the author's harrowing flight from Poland as the Nazis closed in on the estate owned by the author's Polish husband, Prince Paul Sapieha. The rest of the book, the American author explains, was written soon after her return to the US in 1940 to provide an account for her two children concerning their Polish roots. She describes the near feudal conditions of life on the Polish estates where they were living in relative luxury compared to the extreme poverty of the peasants. She describes society in the village as well as in Kracow and Warsaw in a very interesting style. Her story displayed her personal courage in the face of difficulties that would overwhelm most of us. She is a good writer of marked intellignece and makes use of quoting short conversations that convey explanations of situations or issues that might otherwise take pages to describe. Another talented writer who wrote very little besides this compelling book.… (meer)

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