Ana de Castro Osório
| Ana de Castro Osório | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
18 June 1872 Mangualde, Portugal |
| Died |
23 March 1935 (aged 62) Setúbal, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Feminist and republican activist |
Ana de Castro Osório (1872–1935), was a Portuguese feminist. She was the founder of several women's organisations: the Grupo Português de Estudos Feministas in 1907, the Liga Republicana das Mulheres Portuguesas (English: Republican Women's League) in 1909, the Associação de Propaganda Feminista in 1912 and Comissão Feminina Pela Pátria in 1916.
In 1905, she wrote Às Mulheres Portuguesas (English: To Portuguese Women), a feminist manifesto.[1]
Notes
- ↑ "Women Writers up to 1974" by Hilary Owen and Cláudio Pazos Alonso, chapter 14, p. 169, in A Companion to Portuguese Literature (eds. Stephen Parkinson, Cláudio Pazos Alonso and T.F. Earle), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: Tamesis, ISBN 9781855661943
External links
- Works by Ana de Castro Osório at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Ana de Castro Osório at Internet Archive
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