Olivia Paoli

Olivia Paoli de Braschi (1855 - 1942) born in Ponce, Puerto Rico was a Puerto Rican suffragist, thinker, and activist who fought for the rights of women. [1] [2] [3] [4] She was married to the journalist radical-liberal Mario Braschi, who suffered persecution by the Spanish during the 1880s for political reasons.[5] She was the founder of the first Theosophist lodge in Puerto Rico on December 31, 1906. She was also the director of the magazine La Estrella de Oriente, which was dedicated to publishing the movement's philosophical, religious, and esoteric texts.[6] [7] In her work as an activist, Paoli was a contemporary of Ana Roque, Beatriz Lassalle, Carmen Gomez, and Isabel Andreu de Aguilar. She was also one of the architects of the country's suffrate campaign from the 1920s, participating in the Social Suffragette League, of which she was its vice president. [8] [9] [10]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ Torres-Braschi, Lillian (1979). Olivia: vida de Olivia Paoli Viuda de Braschi, 1855-1942. s.e. p. 160. ISBN 978-844-990-312-0 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico (2006). Dos siglos de periodismo puertorriqueño: II, Volume 2. Casa de Periodistas Editorial. p. 154. ISBN 978-097-431-021-3 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Cancel, Mario R., ed. (2003). Anti-figuraciones: bocetos puertorriqueños. San Juan: Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores-Postdata. p. 176. ISBN 978-193-227-122-5 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Cancel, Mario R., ed. (1997). Historia y género: vídas y relatos de las mujeres en el Caribe. Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores. p. 126. ISBN 978-096-334-274-4 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Findlay, Eileen (1999). Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 (en inglés). Duke University Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-082-232-396-9 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ García Baena, Rosa María; Cazorla Granados, Francisco José (2010). Otras voces femeninas: educación y producción literaria en las logias teosóficas. Universidad de Málaga. p. 337. ISBN 978-849-747-305-7 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Ayala, César J.; Bernabe, Rafael (2009). Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898. University of North Carolina Press. p. 448. ISBN 978-080-789-553-5.
  8. ↑ Roy-Féquière, Magali (1993). «Race, gender, and the Generación del Treinta: toward a deciphering of Puerto Rican national identity discourse». Tesis Doctoral (en inglés). Stanford University. p. 500.
  9. ↑ Roy-Féquière, Magali (2004). Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Temple University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-159-213-231-7.
  10. ↑ Barceló Miller, María de F. (1997). La Lucha por el Sufragio Femenino en Puerto Rico, 1896-1935. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales. p. 239. ISBN 978-092-915-745-0. (Spanish)
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