O ensino feminino privado em Pelotas, RS, através dos anúncios de jornais (1875-1890).

Abstract

This dissertation, has as main focus the history of private female education in Pelotas, in the XIX century, more accurately between 1875 and 1890. It is a research based in document analysis, which uses as sources the newspapers available in the Public Library of Pelotas (BPP), in which I privileged news, annoucements of private classes taught by female teachers and the collegios femininos. There were analised 1006 announces, 349 refered to 20 private classes and 657 related to 21 collegios femininos, that reveal one ot the women elite greatest forms of education in Pelotas and the expansion of the women working market throw teaching. In this sence, we emphasize that, there was in this city, in the xix century, a significant variaty of female education network – schools, private classes, boarding schools, etc – and, in consequence, a great work market for women, specially for teachers.