Długa droga ku powieści dla dziewcząt. "Córki chcą inaczej" Eugenii Kobylińskiej-Masiejewskiej na tle twórczej biografii autorki: od międzywojennego Wilna aż po PRL

The text introduces the figure of Eugenia Kobylińska-Masiejewska and her path to a novel for girls, which culminated in the publication Córki chcą inaczej in 1966. Kobylińska-Masiejewska worked as a teacher all her life, and debuted as novelist in interwar Vilnius, where she created numerous portraits of students in teacher’sdiaries Świat w szkole and Pamiętnik nauczycielki and fiction for teenager’s readers; however, she did not try to create a novel aimed for girls at this time. The article introduces this topic and concentrates on Córki chcą inaczej as an example of the genre in communist Poland.