Entre crônicas e contos: duas faces de Júlia Lopes de Almeida no início da república

Abstract

This article does a comparative analysis between the chronicles of Julia Lopes de Almeida, the majority gathered in the Livro das Noivasand in her short stories Os porcosand A caolha, all of them published in the same period –late nineteenth century. The writer was the greatest woman writer over the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, recognized by her fellow writers and by the public that always received very well her literary work. The two short stories were even awarded, and the last one, A caolha, was selected between the hundred best Brazilian short stories of twentieth century, organized by Italo Moriconi. The Livro das Noivashad several editions from 1896, when it was published, to the first decades of the twentieth century. The analysis seeks to show how in her chronicles there was a didactic concern with female education, and in her novels and short stories she was concerned with reception by literary criticism.