Elvira Mancuso (1867–1958) forma parte de ese grupo de interesantes escritoras sicilianas hasta hoy escasamente estu-diadas. No obstante, fue una intelectual comprometida fundamen-talmente con el tema de la educación femenina, único medio para lograr la verdadera emancipación profesional y sentimental como lo demuestra el ensayo que presentamos, en el que, apoyándose en su propia experiencia vital, viene a apuntalar el ideario expuesto en su novela Vecchia storia… inverosimile (1906), acogida con tibieza por la crítica. Este texto polémico, junto a sus propias decisiones personales, la convierten en una feminista ante litteram por su defensa de la paridad de sexos y por su valiente crítica del panorama desolador en que se encontraba la mujer en la Sicilia de la época.
Elvira Mancuso (1867-1958 is a part of the ever-interesting group made up of Sicilian female writers who have hardly been studied hitherto. Nonetheless, Mancuso was an intellectual, mainly involved in topics such as female education, which she considered to be the only means to professional and sentimental emancipation, as shown in this brief essay. In her study, with support in her own vital experience, she underpins the ideas exposed in her novel Vecchia storia…inverosimile (1906) that was coldly received by the critics. This polemical essay, together with her own personal choices, make her become an ante litteram feminist because of her interest in defending gender equality and her critique to the desolate panorama in which Sicilian females´ condition were found at the time.
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