THE STEPS OF JUANA MANSO AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FORGOTTEN CAREER

Abstract

This article aims to present the literary career of Juana Paula Manso in Brazil. At the end of the decade of 1840, the young writer Juana Paula Manso arrived in Brazil with her parents, from an Argentina agitated by political conflicts, with a stable financial life, until the emergence of the dictatorial government of Juan Manoel de Rosas. Thus, important aspects of life will be presented a woman who struggled to support herself, her parents, her daughters and her future marriage. Juana Manso was and is an important name for South America, especially in the countries where she had to go into exile, such as Uruguay and Brazil, in them she opened the doors of her home to teach new educational methods, showing that girls could and should learn more than just sewing and cooking. In addition, she demonstrated several talents, so much so that she could easily learn different foreign languages, loved theater, music, the circulation of information through periodicals, and ended up founding, in Brazil, O Jornal das Senhoras (1852) and, in Argentina, O Album de Señoritas (1854). Thus, this work had as methodology a literature review, according to Carlos Gil (2002). Finally, we use as a theoretical basis the researches of Bárbara Souto (2019), Deise Schell (2021), Eliane Vasconcellos (1999), Elisabetta Pagliarullo (2011), Lidia Lewkowick (2000, 2003), Regina Silva (2020), among others.