| Summary: | This essay deals with the problem of the retirement in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century based on the fictional works of Vlasta Pittnerová, who was the author of simply female novels and romances set in the countryside surroundings. The essay is patterned on the comparison of the Vlasta Pitterová´s writings/works and the results of the modern historians, who are dealing with the issue of the social history of the rural areas. This essay is based on the combination of the social history, microhistory and history of the everyday life, methodologically. The main topic of the essay are transfers of the rural farms, marriage strategies and retirement. The short excursion into the Czech literature of the 19th century and Vlasta Pittnerová ´s life itself constitutes the secondary theme of the essay. What ´s more her life infuences her works in many ways. To the research were used the novels and romances setting of big farms, mills, and blacksmith´s workshops. Their storylines, plots and backgrounds are compared with the results of modern historiography on the theme of the rural family. The main purpose of this essay is to verify whether he rural thematic prose can - besides the historical official sources of the registration consider as another possibility of a relevant source of knowledge of the everyday life in the countryside and in individual families.
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