Women who wrote the Semanario pintoresco español (1936-1857)

Abstract

The Semanario Pintoresco Español projected an image of the women which is not monolithic. Whilst on the one hand, many male discourses were published depicting women as the perfect idealization of the «house’s angel», on the other, the very fact that there were certain women writers who published there (Amelia Corradi, Fernán Caballero, Carolina Coronado or Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda) generates a complication in those descriptions that points to the debate around the female question. Indeed, the gap between the discourse on women in press and the writing of the women themselves opens a break in this image along the pages of the famous Spanish newspaper. In this work, I present the results of that representation after having analyzed the 1137 issues of the Semanario. In sum, my research analyzes the biographical profile of those women who, without using a pseudonym, created the presence of female authorship in the 1137 copies that made up the newspaper.