Gervásia Nunézia Pires dos Santos Nunes

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: White

Events:

1853  -  Rio de Janeiro  -  Unknown  -  She took over the editorship of the "Jornal das Senhoras" until its final publication in 1855.

Connections:

Editors newspapers and magazines
Women journalists
Women journalists (Brazil)
Women writers in Brazil
Writers (women) others

Biography:
Took over the editorship of the Jornal das Senhoras, to which she had previously been a contributor, after Joana Paula Manso de Noronha and Violante Bivar e Velasco. She was the longest-standing of the paper’s three editors, holding the post from 2 October 1853 until its final publication on the 25 December 1855. Part of her relative success may lie in the fact that her husband was both able and willing to support the paper financially (Hahner, 30).

References:

Bernardes, Maria Thereza Caiuby Crescenti (1989) Mulheres de Ontem?: Rio de Janeiro, século XIX
Hahner, June E (1990) Emancipating the Female Sex: the struggle for women’s rights in Brazil, 1850-1940