ABSTRACT:
The present review presents a reading of Floriza Barboza Ferraz’s memoir, a woman born in the 19th century in the countryside of São Paulo. Her own life’s narrative allows the author to highlight some elements of a coffee farmer’s wife and daughter. Two of the most salient aspects of her story as it is told in Páginas are her relationships with workers - enslaved when she was a child, or hired, and mostly immigrants, when she was a married woman - and her view of maternity and its difficulties in the first decades of the 20th century.
KEYWORDS:
Memoir; Autobiographic writing; Floriza Barboza Ferraz