Irena Kosmowska
Irena Kosmowska (20 December 1879 – 21 August 1945) was a Polish educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Sejm in 1919, serving in parliament until 1930. Biography Kosmowska was born into an intellectual family in Warsaw in 1879, the daughter of Irena (née Kozłowska) and Wiktoryn. After being home educated, she attended a boarding school in the city and then a school for landowners' daughters in Kuźnice in 1898. After returning to Warsaw, in 1903 she began she lecturing at courses for village security guards which were led by Jadwiga Dziubińska and Maria Wehyro. From 1905 to 1908 she studied Polish history and literature at the University of Lviv, where she met activists of the Galician People's Movement, including Maria and Bolesław Wysłouch, under whose influence she began her political activity. In 1908 she started contributing to the weekly under the pseudonym Jasiek z Lipnicy, subsequently co-editing the publication from 1905 to 1915. From 1911, she also edited the "Świt - Młodzi idą" supplement, in which she published works by young folk poets. She was a co-organiser and secretary general of the Agricultural Society of S. Staszica and helped found