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Maria Janion in Uncanny Slavdom wrote: "With secularization in the mythology of all European countries came the assignment of the role of victims and saviors to women. Their self-realization was understood as self-sacrifice. [...] Woman as the body of the nation, according to the cited rule of secularization, became the center of patriotic religion. [...] The phantasmal body of the Polish woman was depicted as humiliated, disgraced and tormented. It could incite hatred and revenge against the brutal soldier perpetrators of misery, but it could also, as is well known, arouse erotic fascination." Libera's friend, R., promised that Miss Polonia would be included in one exhibition with Jan Matejko's painting Polonia - The Year 1863.