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