Francisca Clotilde: uma escrita pelo Ceará

Abstract

In a time of conquest of feminine spaces, the performance of the journalist and female writer Francisca Clotilde (1962-1935) is emblematic, during the troubled period of the potical dispute between Franco Rabelo and the oligarch Nogueira Accioly, in Ceará elections of 1911. This research analyzes the book “Pelo Ceará”, edited in Aracati, that congregates texts published for it in the newspaper “Folha do Commercio”. Clotilde wrote letters to the politicians and generals and hugged the candidacy of Rabelo, making of the periodical an open tribune to the expressions politics of a woman of century XIX.