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vol.
XXXV, no.
1, March 2005, p.
117-132.
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The following text is taken from Prospects (UNESCO, International Bureau of Education)
vol.
XXXV, no.
1, March 2005, p.
117-132.
©UNESCO:International Bureau of Education, 2005
This document may be reproduced free of charge as long as acknowledgement is made of the source.
JUANA P.
MANSO
(1819–75)
Myriam Southwell
I know that in the period I live in, in my country I am an orphan soul or an exotic plant
unable to acclimatize.
(Juana Manso, letter to Mary Mann, 1869.
)
We have a sad experience of how important it is to spread learning to the masses, if this had
been the first step after May 1810, and if there had been a clean break with the traditions of
the past to emancipate reason as all men had been emancipated, perhaps neither so much
blood would have soaked these lands; nor so many tears been shed.
(Manso, 1854.
)
Juana Paula Manso, who was born in Buenos Aires on 26 June 1819 and died on 24 April
1875 in the same city, was a writer, translator, journalist, teacher and pr
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