Antónia Gertrudes Pusich
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Antónia Gertrudes Pusich was born in Cape Verde on 1 October 1805 and was the fifth daughter of António Pusich, originally from the city of Ragusa, known in Croatian by the name of Dubrovnik, and of a Portuguese, Ana Isabel Nunes.
Antónia Gertrudes Pusich was the first woman in our country who, as a journalist and director of periodicals, put her name in the headline, without hiding herself, as other women had done until then, behind a male pseudonym.
From an early age, Antonia began to scribble the first verses. With her father's education and the many books that surrounded her, we know that she knew several languages and that she wrote since she was young. The married life and the three marriages, as well as the adversities of life, only allowed her to publish for the first time in 1841. His best known work is Olinda or the Abbey of Comnor Place. of 1848. In the preface to the book, Antónia Pusich says that the idea of writing that novel came to her after reading a novel by Walter Scott. In fact, his book does not lack all the ingredients of horror tales, more to the taste of British mists than of our Portuguese sun, where, as the researcher Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa says, "tradition, castles, underground, ruins, narcotics, leaks, robbers, deaths, storms and even a spectrum".
Antónia Gertudes Pusich also wrote about members of the royal family, who always dedicated to her family and to herself a great friendship, even being close friends with the infanta Isabel Maria. The writer's longevity allowed her to go through several reigns - from D. Maria I to the reign of D. Luís.
Her literary work is extensive and it is known that she resorted to writing to cover the expenses of her large family. Although many of her books are only of interest to researchers, her writing as a journalist and as the founder of three periodicals is still read with interest and pleasure. She founded The Crusade, The Charity and The Literary Assembly, which are testimonies of an educator and an actor in social and political life.
Antónia Gertrudes Pusich was born in Cape Verde on 1 October 1805 and was the fifth daughter of António Pusich, originally from the city of Ragusa, known in Croatian by the name of Dubrovnik, and of a Portuguese, Ana Isabel Nunes.
Antónia Gertrudes Pusich was the first woman in our country who, as a journalist and director of periodicals, put her name in the headline, without hiding herself, as other women had done until then, behind a male pseudonym.
From an early age, Antonia began to scribble the first verses. With her father's education and the many books that surrounded her, we know that she knew several languages and that she wrote since she was young. The married life and the three marriages, as well as the adversities of life, only allowed her to publish for the first time in 1841. His best known work is Olinda or the Abbey of Comnor Place. of 1848. In the preface to the book, Antónia Pusich says that the idea of writing that novel came to her after reading a novel by Walter Scott. In fact, his book does not lack all the ingredients of horror tales, more to the taste of British mists than of our Portuguese sun, where, as the researcher Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa says, "tradition, castles, underground, ruins, narcotics, leaks, robbers, deaths, storms and even a spectrum".
Antónia Gertudes Pusich also wrote about members of the royal family, who always dedicated to her family and to herself a great friendship, even being close friends with the infanta Isabel Maria. The writer's longevity allowed her to go through several reigns - from D. Maria I to the reign of D. Luís.
Her literary work is extensive and it is known that she resorted to writing to cover the expenses of her large family. Although many of her books are only of interest to researchers, her writing as a journalist and as the founder of three periodicals is still read with interest and pleasure. She founded The Crusade, The Charity and The Literary Assembly, which are testimonies of an educator and an actor in social and political life.
