Anna Ciundziewicka

Anna Ciundziewicka was an early household and recipe advice writer of Polish ethnicity. She wrote "The Housekeeper of Lithuania" in the Polish language.

Life

[file:Anna Ciundziewickas Kulinaria.Zawadzka.Gospodyni.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Gospodyni litewska (1856 edition)]
Ciundziewicka was born into a well-off family in, in 1803. She was the daughter of Michał Prószyński of the Ogończyk coat of arms, subcamerarius of Minsk, and Tekla née Wolański. Her sister Michalina married Hipolit Siemiradzki; their son was the painter Henryk Siemiradzki.
She was educated at a boarding school in Vilnius. In 1826, she married into the Ciundziewicki family. Her new family ran a large farm in the village of and she gathered information about it.
In 1848 she published "The Housekeeper of Lithuania" in Vilnius.
She died in 1850, and was buried at her family's chapel.