A Gyurkovics-lányok

A Gyurkovics-lányok

Title page for A Gyurkovics-lányok (1910)
Author	Ferenc Herczeg
Language	Hungarian
Publisher	Singer és Wolfner
Publication date	1893
Publication place	Hungary
Pages	214

A Gyurkovics-lányok (lit. 'The Gyurkovics Girls') is an 1893 novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Herczeg.

In the novel, a Hungarian mother marries off her seven daughters in clever ways.[1] The book explores "the native traditions ... concerning matrimony as the single career open to women, the strict seniority rights to marriage in a family of many daughters, and the code of honor compelling a youth to marry the girl with whom he has been caught in a flirtation".[2]

Herczeg wrote two more novels about the Gyurkovics family. A Gyurkovics-fiuk (lit. 'The Gyurkovics Boys') was published in 1895 and Gyurka és Sándor (lit. 'Gyurka and Sándor') in 1899. A Gyurkovics-lányok was the basis for the 1911 play Seven Sisters written by Edith Ellis, which became successful internationally.[2] The novel and play have been adapted into the films The Seven Sisters (1915), Gyurkovicsarna (1920) and A Sister of Six (1926).[3]

References

1. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. 1995. p. 538. ISBN 0-87779-042-6.
2. Gergely, Emro Joseph (2017). Hungarian Drama in New York: American Adaptations, 1908–1940. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 89.
3. Goble, Alan (2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 220.