Irene Lisboa

Irene do Ceu Vieira Lisboa (born December 25, 1892 in Casal da Murzinheira, Arranhó municipality , Arruda dos Vinhos district, Lisbon district , Portugal ; † November 25, 1958 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese writer and teacher. Before Agustina Bessa-Luís and Lidia Jorge , she was considered the most important female voice of her time in her country, although she could only publish under a pseudonym .

Life

Lisboa came from a very wealthy background and had a sheltered childhood, including on the family estate where she was born. She spent her school days in Lisbon, where she attended the Escola Normal Primeira de Lisboa , and she also went to school at the Convento do Sacramento, where she also graduated from high school. She first studied for three years at the Colegio Ingles in Lisbon before deciding to study pedagogy and educational science because she wanted to become a teacher. She completed her studies abroad, for example in Belgium , France and Switzerland . In Geneva she studied at the Pedagogical Institute there. The most prominent of their lecturers was the well-known pedagogue Édouard Claparède . She also met Jean Piaget .

After completing her studies, she returned to Portugal, where she worked as a primary school teacher in Lisbon and Braga until her death . In 1932 she was appointed the official inspector for elementary schools for northeast Portugal and was transferred to Braga, allegedly to silence the critical and rebellious author and to fill her with work.

She died in Lisbon on November 25, 1958, exactly one month before her 66th birthday. A museum with a bust is dedicated to her in her hometown.

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Irene Lisboa published her first text at the age of 20 in the journal Jornal Educaçao Feminina . From then on she became interested in publishing and wrote texts and articles for various magazines, such as Presença , Sol Nascente , Seara Nova , Litoral and Cadernos de Poesia . It was followed by stories, chronicles and articles in specialist magazines and newspapers and, above all, poems. Irene Lisboa always used a pseudonym, especially a male one, as literature was not accepted by women in Portugal for a long time. The best known and most used pseudonyms were João Falco and Manuel Soares . She also published in anthologies and wrote specialist books on the subject of education.

Female literature in Portugal

Few women authors managed to make themselves heard in Portugal. Before the twentieth century, these were mainly nuns and noble women who trumped with poetry, but hardly with prose. It was not until the twentieth century that women from the bourgeoisie began to take up writing. In Irene Lisboa's time it was, for example, the poet Florbela Espanca or the lesbian author Judite Teixeira . But female voices were hardly noticed, as the machismo also meant that literature was mainly a man's business. It was not until the middle of the twentieth century, with the appearance of women authors such as Natália Correia , Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen , Agustina Bessa-Luis and Lidia Jorge, that Portugal was able to build on its independent feminine literature production. Today, feminine literature is of course a recognized part of the literary and art scene as well as society.

Publications (selection)

Treze Contarelas que Irene escreve e Ilda Ilustrou, 1926. (13 short stories that Irene wrote and Ilda drew, here with her real name), children's book.
Um dia e outro dia, poetry, 1936.
Outario havias de vir latente triste, poetry, 1937.
Folhas Folantes, poetry, 1940.
Começa uma vida, novella, 1940.
Lisboa e quem ca vive, 1940, city chronicle.
Idem, 1940, chronicle.
A psychologica do desenho infantil, 1942, educational work.
Educaçao, 1944, educational work.

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personal data
SURNAME	Lisboa, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lisboa, Irene do Ceu Vieira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Casal da Murzinheira, Concelho de Arruda dos Vinhos , Lisbon District , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 1958
Place of death	Lisbon