RECEPÇÃO DE A MENSAGEIRA: REVISTA LITERARIA DEDICADA Á MULHER BRAZILEIRA

Abstract

Official press, in Brazil, only began when the country ceased to be a colony of Portugal and came to constitute the United Kingdom, with Portugal and the Algarves, in 1808. Women’s press was established relatively late, in comparison to other countries. This study’s focus is the magazine A Mensageira, and is concerned with its reception by other publications. It was customary for magazines to send copies to other publications, which would in turn publish opinions on the received material, divulging it in their pages. The sending magazines would then print these impressions and reproduce them in subsequent volumes. Thus, this study is about the opinions issued by the publications which received the magazines later reproduced in A Mensageira itself. At first, a profile of the magazine is drawn to, then, analyze its reception. In conclusion, it is found that there was the perception that the magazine was a distinguished publication, even if its real aim, which was to highlight the necessity of women investing in their education, to become better mothers as well as to have a career, was not fully grasped.