Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture: Pressing for Change

This monograph offers the first full-length account of the political intervention of the nineteenth-century journalist, novelist and translator Francisca de Assis Martins Wood (1802-1900). Her unusual profile included several decades spent in England, which shaped her perception of Portugal. Why then was her intriguing life-story not examined earlier? And why did mid-nineteenth century female authorship remain neglected for so long in Portuguese cultural memory? After revisiting such matters with fresh eyes, the focus turns to the pioneer weekly periodical that Wood headed for two years, A Voz Feminina, later rebranded O Progresso.

Crucially, during an age when the transnational circulation of ideas became amplified through the press, the cosmopolitan Wood cultivated strategic connections with early suffragists across Europe. In a string of remarkable editorials, she tackled Church hegemony and pushed for women’s rights. Her daring anticlerical thinking in the late 1860s, which anticipated an agenda more readily associated to this day with the work of Eça de Queirós, stands out for the sheer modernity of its gender analysis. One hundred and fifty years on, this study uncovers the backlash against Wood’s progressive views, led by another Lisbon-based periodical, Bem Público [The Public Good], and reclaims this salient public intellectual as a worthy precursor of Portuguese first-wave feminism.

Cláudia Pazos Alonso is Professor of Portuguese and Gender Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College.

Reviews:

‘It is a rare pleasure to encounter such a meticulous, far-reaching, and at the same time, downright readable academic book as this (which, to its further merit, has an excellent, full Index). The author leaves no stone unturned in her painstaking exploration and rigorous analysis of Wood’s career and periodical culture in nineteenth-century Portugal. The book traverses intellectual biography, literary, social and cultural history, the history of ideas and, of course, the insightful textual analysis for which Pazos Alonso is so highly regarded. This excellent and ground-breaking monograph extends our understanding of the intellectual culture of 1860s Portugal, reaching well beyond the immediate subject matter at hand. It is an essential reference for scholars of nineteenth-century writers of any sex.’ — Rhian Atkin, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 2021 (full text online)
‘Pazos Alonso vai mesmo mais longe celebrando Wood como um exemplo da primeira vaga de feminismo na Europa... A autora reconstrói uma rede de figuras, europeias e outras, defensoras dos direitos femininos, na qual insere Wood demontrando que, se era uma voz praticamente isolada em Portugal, não o era se colocada num contexto mais amplo situado para além das estreitas fronteiras culturais e políticas lusas.’ — Teresa Pinto Coelho, Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses 29, 2020, 233-41
‘Neste livro, Cláudia faz brilhantemente justiça a Francisca, prestando ao mesmo tempo um serviço à cultura nacional.’ — Ana Luisa Vilela, Colóquio-Letras 206, 2021, 276-279
‘Pazos Alonso’s compelling and engaging study not only rescues a prime Portuguese journalist and intellectual from cultural oblivion, but also grants her a well-deserved transnational place in feminist and gender scholarship.’ — Leticia Villamediana González, Modern Language Review 117.3, July 2022, 508-09 (full text online)
‘Succeeds admirably in its proposed aim to offer an overview of the Portuguese mid-nineteenth-century periodical press through the closer analysis of Francisca Wood’s career as editor of A Voz Feminina. It is a groundbreaking study, especially valuable for its extensive archival research that brings to light the figure of a forgotten Portuguese woman writer and pioneer feministas well as the results of her progressive efforts in both the Portuguese and international contexts.’ — Manuela Mourão, American Journal of Lusophone Studies 6.2, 2022, 209-11 (full text online)

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x-xii	Acknowledgements Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.3	Cite
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1-24	Introduction: Pressing Matters Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.4	Cite
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25-54	Chapter 1 Piecing Together the Life-Histories of Francisca De Assis Martins Wood and William Thorold Wood Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.5	Cite
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55-82	Chapter 2 in the Public Eye: Women in Print Culture (1848–1867) Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.6	Cite
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83-110	Chapter 3 the Editor and Her Team Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.7	Cite
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111-138	Chapter 4 Questioning Subordi/nation Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.8	Cite
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139-158	Chapter 5 Activism Through Open Letters Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.9	Cite
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159-184	Chapter 6 Spreading the Word Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.10	Cite
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185-194	Conclusion Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.11	Cite
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195-216	Bibliography Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.12	Cite
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217-224	Appendix 1. Tipografia Luso-Britânica Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.13	Cite
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225-226	Appendix 2. List of Editorials By Francisca Wood Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.14	Cite
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227-230	Appendix 3. List of Editorials (alphabetically By Author) Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.15	Cite
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231-238	Index Cláudia Pazos Alonso doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzkt.16	Cite
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