Josefina Álvares De Azevedo - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Josefina Álvares de Azevedo (5 May, 1851 — 2 September, 1913) was a Brazilian journalist, writer and early feminist She was an advocate for the Brazilian women's right to vote, writing newspapers, theater plays and poems. According to Augusto Blake's Dicionário Bibliográfico Brasileiro, Josefina was born in Itaboraí and was a half-sister of the writer Álvares de Azevedo.
She, however, said she was Azevedo's cousin and to have born in Recife, where she lived until she was twenty-six years-old.
In 1877, she moved to São Paulo, where she founded 1888 the newspaper A Família.
The following year she moved to Rio de Janeiro,and kept publishing until 1897, when she had to interrupt it, resuming the newspaper in 1898.Azevedo defended the education of women as an essential tool for their emancipation.
She sought to extend the circulation of his newspaper throughout the country, traveling to the North and Northeast regions of Brazil.
She promoted the feminine suffrage in the 1890 article O Direito ao Voto (The Right to Vote), a year after the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic.
She wrote in the same year the comedy O Voto Feminino, (Women's Vote), staged in the Teatro Recreio Dramático. Still in 1890, she gathered a series of texts that she had published in the newspaper, including poetry, and edited them in the compilation Retalhos.

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