Ana de Castro Osório (18 June 1872 – 23 March 1935) was a Portuguese

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

, active in the field of children's literature and political Republicanism.

Early life

Osório was born into a well-off family on 18 June 1872, her mother being Mariana Osório de Castro Cabral e Albuquerque and her father Judge João Baptista de Castro. She was influenced by her parents immense library and became a writer by age 23. In 1889, Osório married republican poet Paulino de Oliveira, with whom she had two children.

Public life

In 1905, she wrote the feminist manifesto ''Às Mulheres Portuguesas'' (''To Portuguese Women'')."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, This work was reflected on educated women's increasingly strong political consciousness and the involvement of women's organizations and feminism in Republicanism. She was the founder of several women's organisations including the first feminist association, the Grupo Português de Estudos Feministas (Portuguese Group of Feminist Studies) in 1907. Together with

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and Fausta Pinto de Gama, they founded the Liga Republicana das Mulheres Portuguesas (Portuguese Women's Republican League) in 1908. The group called for the overthrow of the monarchy and contributed to the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910. In 1911, Osório headed the Associação de Propaganda Feminista (Portuguese Feminist Propaganda Association) which was founded by

and Carolina Beatriz Ângelo. In June 1913, she,

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, Beatriz Pinheiro, Luthgarda de Caires, Joana de Almeida Nogueira and Maria Veleda were part of the Portuguese delegation at the

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in Budapest. In 1917, Osório was one of the founders of the Crusade of Portuguese Women which encouraged women to be active in the war effort.

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