Ludwika Jędrzejewicz

She was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1807, the daughter of Nicolas Chopin and his wife Justyna.

[1] From a young age Ludwika showed talent for music and literature, and taught her brother Frédéric (born 1810) Polish and French.

[2] In 1825 Frédéric wrote his friend and schoolmate Jan Białobłocki: "Ludwika has composed a perfect mazurek, of a kind that Warsaw has not yet danced to.

Both were members of the Polish Ladies Benevolent Society, a group formed to support those who were impoverished by tsarist repression.

Her husband accused her of putting her family before everything else, and Jędrzejewicz continued treating Ludwika badly until his death in 1853.