LTStraipsnyje pateikiama dviejų XIX a. moterų rašytojų – Sofijos Tyzenhauzaitės de Šuazel-Gufjė ir Gabrielės Giunterytės-Puzinienės – istorinės tematikos kūrinių analizė bei gilinamasi į juose vaizduojamų istorinių moterų Barboros Radvilaitės ir karalienės Jadvygos portretus. Siekiama išsiaiškinti šių vaizdinių sąsajas su tuo metu autores pasiekusia istorinių šaltinių medžiaga, to meto istoriniu kontekstu ir XIX a. Lietuvos moterų autorystės specifika. Raktažodžiai: Sofija Tyzenhauzaitė de Šuazel-Gufjė, Gabrielė Giunterytė-Puzinienė, XIX a. Lietuvos moterų literatūra, Barbora Radvilaitė, karalienė Jadvyga, istorinė drama, istorinis romanas.
ENThe article analyzes the works on historical themes of Sophie de Tisenhaus de Choiseul-Gouffier and Gabrielė Giunterytė-Puzinienė, two of the first Lithuanian women writers of the nineteenth century, and presents an indepth study of the images of historical women (Barbora Radvilaitė and Queen Jadwiga) that emerge in them. The author of the article aims to examine the links between those images and the historical source material available to the authors at the time, the historical context of the time, and the specifics of authorship of the nineteenth-century Lithuanian women. The theoretical approach to the question of memory is used: Pierre Nora’s sites of memory and Aleida and Jan Assmann’s research on collective cultural memory. Both de Tisenhaus de Choiseul-Gouffier and Giunterytė-Puzinienė use historical plots involving prominent women from the joint history of Lithuania and Poland. They interpret historical sources in line with the prevailing Romantic tendencies in literature, creating a romanticized image of a courageous, yet highly sensitive and emotionally vulnerable female ruler. Such representation allows us to better understand the specificity of women’s authorship at the time—the need to find historical or mythological women to compare and identify with. Moreover, the analysis shows that women’s literature of the time was also closely linked to women’s private space and the expectations placed on them to educate the younger generation and to maintain its morality. Such approach to the historical source material highlights the synthesis between the disciplines of history and literature and their modernization, leading to new forms of expression.The fact that women took up the genres of historical literature also meant that the opportunities for new characters to enter this synthesis had been widened. Keywords: Sophie de Tisenhaus de Choiseul-Gouffier, Gabrielė Giunterytė-Puzinienė, nineteenth-century Lithuanian women’s literature, Barbora Radvilaitė, Queen Jadwiga, historical drama, historical novel.