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Periodicals for Women in Mexico During the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Jane Herrick
Jane Herrick*
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Mt. Rainier, Maryland
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Colonial Spanish America would have found the idea of publishing a periodical directed toward a feminine audience alien. Yet the colonial period was not long over when such periodicals began to appear in Mexico. Typical of those published in the period 1841–1855 were El Semanario de las señoritas mejicanas (3 vols.; México, 1841–1842) and La Semana de las señoritas mejicanas (5 vols.; México, 1851–1852). They have been examined in detail to determine what appeal the fledglings tried to make to Mexican society. El Album mexicano (2 vols.; México, 1849), La Camelia (México, 1853), El Album de las señoritas potosinas (San Luis Potosí, 1865) and, as examples of a later type, El Album de la mujer (Mexico, 1883–1890) and El Correo de las señoras (México, 1883–1893) have been used to supplement the information. While none of them achieved the success of Godey’s Lady’s Book which by 1860 claimed a circulation of 150,000, they did show that in the nineteenth century some publishers in Mexico were concerned with woman’s edification, education, and entertainment through reading.

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Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , October 1957 , pp. 135 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1957

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References

1 Bibliography and information on Mexican periodicals in general may be found in Spell, Jefferson Rea, “Mexican Literary Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century,” PMLA, LII (1937), 272–312 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; de Anda, Fortino Ibarra, El Periodismo en México (2 vols.; México, 1934–1935)Google Scholar; Valdes, Miguel Velasco, Historia del periodismo mexicano (México, 1955)Google Scholar, and others.

2 Under various related titles this had an almost continuous existence from 1830 to 1898.

3 These volumes were fashionable Christmas gifts from 1822 to 1850. Gausseron, B. H., Les Keepsakes et les annuaires illustres de l’époque (Paris, 1898)Google Scholar, lists one hundred and nineteen different ones, and Lachève, Frédéric, Bibliographie sommaire des Keepsakes (2 vols.; Paris, 1929)Google Scholar, has an even more extensive list.

4 El Presente Amistoso, 1852, p. 1.Google Scholar

5 El Semanario, I, i.

6 Ibid., vii.

7 La Semana, I, 1–2.

8 Ibid., IV, Introduction.

9 La Camelia, Introduction.

10 de Anda, Forano Ibarra in Las Mexicanas en el periodismo (Vol. I, El Periodismo en México; México, 1935)Google Scholar, for instance, says the first was El Aquila mexicana (1823); but the variations in terminology make the designation “first” somewhat meaningless.

11 Evidently Keepsake français, of which five volumes were published, 1837–1842.

12 El Semanario, II, 201–208.Google Scholar

13 Ibid., II, 257.

14 Ibid., I, 314.

15 Ibid., I, 281.

16 Ibid., I, 400 ff. These articles and illustrations seem to be the product of a period of religious interest on the part of the editor. Valdes, Miguel Velasco, Historia del periodismo mexicano (México, 1955), p. 61 Google Scholar, considers him proficient in changing sides: “pues era alternativemente clerical, clerófobo, liberal, conservador, masón, etc. etc.”

17 Probst, Juan, “La Educación en la república Argentina durante la época colonial,” Nosotros, XXXVIII (1921), 236–238 Google Scholar.

18 El Semanario, I, iv.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid., III, 72.

21 Ibid., III, 350.

22 Ibid., II, 107–108.

23 Ibid., III, 68.

24 Ibid., III, 68–69.

25 Ibid., II, 108.

26 Ibid., II, 109.

27 Ibid.

28 Ibid., II, 111.

29 Ibid., III, 67.

30 Ibid., III, 351–352.

31 Ibid., III, 24.

32 Ibid., III, 37ff.

33 Ibid., III, 227ff.

34 Ibid., II, 121.

35 Ibid., III, 215.

36 For example, La Semana, III, 170.Google Scholar

37 Ibid., I, 41.

38 Ibid., III, 292.

39 Ibid., III, 122.

40 Ibid., II, 66.

41 Ibid., III, 142.

42 Ibid., I, 192.

43 Ibid., I, 99 ff.

44 Ibid., I, 131–146.

45 Ibid., IV, 358–383.

46 Ibid., I, 147, 161; III, 167.

47 Ibid., III, 203.

48 Ibid., II, 399.

49 Ibid., I, facing page 28.

50 Ibid., III, facing page 319.

51 Ibid., III, facing page 410.

52 Ibid., IV, facing page 12.

53 Ibid., V, 248–251.

54 El Semanario, III, 288.Google Scholar

55 Ibid., III, 382.