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Teresa (novel)
''Teresa'' is an 1886 novel by the Italian writer Neera, real name Anna Radius Zuccari. The story of the heroine Teresa Caccia has parallels with Zuccari's own early life.Rinaldina Russell ppItalian Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebookpp 0313283478 1994-p 289 Neera's novel, Teresa (1886), summarizes her thought in fictional form, and it draws strikingly on some parallels with her own early life. Teresa Caccia, the heroine, is a gentle and obedient child, who turns into a passionate but fundamentally .. References 1886 novels Italian novels {{Europe-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Radius Zuccari
Anna Radius Zuccari (May 7, 1846 – July 13, 1918) was an Italian writer who used the pen name Neera. Biography The daughter of Fermo Zuccari, an architect, she was born Anna Zuccari in Milan and grew up in Caravaggio. Her mother died when she was ten and she was raised by two older unmarried aunts from her father's family. Her father died when she was twenty. In 1871, she married the banker Emilio Radius. She published her first short story in 1875 in the publication ''Il Pungolo''. Zuccari contributed to various magazines and journals, such as ''Rivista d'Italia'', ', ', ' and ''L'Idea Liberale''. In 1890, she founded the journal ''Vita Intima''. Despite her career as a successful author, it was Zuccari's view that a woman's place was in the home, which she called "real feminism". She died in Milan of cancer at the age of 72, being confined to bed by her illness. During the period before her death, she dictated her memoirs which were published after her death as ''Una giov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Novels
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
