She went with her employer to Paris, where she reunited with her brother Erazm, Polish revolutionary, exiled from the Russian Partition after the anti-Tsarist November Uprising crushed by the imperial army.

Her perfect knowledge of French enabled Narcyza to find new employment easily upon her return to occupied Poland.

[1][2][3] She was arrested by the Russians in Lublin and sentenced to three years in prison in 1849 for her membership in the delegalized Związek Narodu Polskiego (pl).

The book was published by Northern Illinois University Press in 2012 in English translation by Dr. Ursula Phillips.

Her correspondence with Bibianna Moraczewska (an unmarried woman by choice like Narcyza) spanning 32 years consisted mostly of intellectual discourses.