Abstract
Drawing on periodicals as the principal documental source, this article aims to demonstrate how the copious literary production and biography of Faustina Saez de Melgar (1833?) was closely linked to journalism. The creator of several magazines aimed at women, she seems to regard fashion magazines as a way of encouraging reading habits in the home. She asserts that education is the key to delivering women from their social marginalisation, which she denounced as a form of slavery. Although an active supporter of abolitionism -author of the drama La cadena rota- she did not consider women’s liberation to require any break in social norms, as it can be found within marriage, the maintaining of patriarchal structures and the practising of Christian virtues. Her thought sometimes appears opportunistic and contradictory. This is possibly a result of a cautious strategy, in which she sought to achieve only what was possible in her epoch.
Highlights
Finalizando diciembre de 1866, en las primeras pá- de toda clase de prendas de vestir, para señoras, seginas del cáustico Gil Blas un embozado escribe: ñoritas y niños; patrones trazados de tamaño natural a135
The creator of several magazines aimed at women
She asserts that education is the key to delivering women
Summary
Finalizando diciembre de 1866, en las primeras pá- de toda clase de prendas de vestir, para señoras, seginas del cáustico Gil Blas un embozado escribe: ñoritas y niños; patrones trazados de tamaño natural a135. Madrid es donde lleva a cabo, entre 1862 y 1866, su primera gran realización periodística: la revista La violeta, de cuya primera época queda hecho un magnífico análisis en uno de los presentes estudios y de la que, por tanto, solo es pertinente hablar ahora para hacerlo de la relación de doña Faustina con el desarrollo de la vida política.
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