Editing Władysław Reymont (section)

==Life==
Reymont was born in the village of [[Kobiele Wielkie]], near [[Radomsko]], as one of the nine children of Józef Rejment, an organist. His mother, Antonina Kupczyńska, had a talent for story-telling. She descended from the impoverished [[Polish nobility]] from the [[Kraków]] region. Reymont spent his childhood in [[Tuszyn]], near [[Łódź]], to which his father had moved to work at a wealthier church parish. Reymont was defiantly stubborn; after a few years of education in the local school, he was sent by his father to [[Warsaw]] into the care of his eldest sister and her husband to teach him his vocation. In 1885, after passing his examinations and presenting "a tail-coat, well-made", he was given the title of journeyman tailor, his only formal certificate of education.<ref name="nobelprize-2">{{cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1924/reymont-autobio.html | title=Autobiography | publisher=The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize | access-date=March 20, 2012 | author=Wladyslaw Reymont | quote=This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series ''Les Prix Nobel''. It was later edited and republished in ''Nobel Lectures''.}}</ref>

To his family's annoyance, Reymont did not work a single day as a tailor. Instead, he first ran away to work in a travelling provincial theatre and then returned in the summer to Warsaw for the "garden theatres". Without a penny to his name, he then returned to Tuszyn after a year, and, thanks to his father's connections, he took up employment as a gateman at a railway crossing near [[Koluszki]] for 16 rubles a month. He ran away twice more: in 1888 to Paris and London as a medium with a German spiritualist<ref>{{cite news|url=https://culture.pl/en/article/reymont-in-london-a-writers-spiritualistic-adventures |title=Reymont in London: A Writer's Spiritualistic Adventures |access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref> and then again to join a theatre troupe. After his lack of success (he was not a talented actor), he returned home again. Reymont also stayed for a time in [[Krosnowa]] near [[Lipce Reymontowskie|Lipce]] and for a time considered joining the [[The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit|Pauline Order]] in [[Częstochowa]]. He also lived in [[Gmina Kołaczkowo|Kołaczkowo]], where he bought a mansion.<ref name="nobelprize-2" />