Antónia Pusich
Antónia Gertrudes Pusich was a Portuguese poet, dramaturgist, journalist, pianist and composer.
Biography
She was born on the Island of São Nicolau, which used to be part of Portuguese Cape Verde. Daughter of the archipelago's colonial governor António Pusich who was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia and Ana Maria Isabel Nunes. She married João Cardoso de Almeida Amado Viana Coelho in 1820 and had six children: João António, Antónia, Alfredo, Maria, Ana and Ema. She later married Francisco Teixeira Henriques and had only one son,Miguel Pusich Henriques Teixeira. She later married José Roberto de Melo Fernandes e Almeida in 1836 and had four sons, António Pusich de Melo, Antónia Pusich de Melo, Ana Isabel Filomena Pusich de Melo e Maria Amélia Pusich de Melo.
As a poet, she marked a novelistic influence in Portugal. and dared to use her real name, not a pseudonym which was custom at the time.
She was the first mother in Portugal that founded and headed a journal.
She took part in several periodicals including Paquete do Tejo. Revista universal lisbonense : jornal dos interesses physicos, moraes e litterarios por uma sociedade estudiosa, and Almanach, having been director and owner of periodicals A assemblea literaria, A Beneficiência and A Cruzada.
On 9 February 2010 a PSD request was approved for the Ethics, Society and Culture Commission to hold hearings on freedom of expression in Portugal, where several people will be heard, including Mário Crespo on 17 February 2010.
Legacy
- A street is named for Pusich in the neighbourhood of Alvalade, in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. Streets are also named for her in the subdivision of Fetal, Charneca de Caparica in Almada and in Pinhal General in Fernão Ferro in Seixal.
Works
- Source:
- Olinda ou a Abadia de Cumnor Place
- Irminio e Edgarde, ou doys mistérios
- O Regedor da Paróquia
- Constança ou o Amor Maternal
- Saudade em memoria da virtuosa Rainha a senhora D. Estephania
- Canto saudoso ou lamentos na solidão á memoria do Dom Pedro Quinto
- Biographia do marechal A. Pusich
- Homenagem a Luís de Camões
- Poesia a S. M. El-Rey Fidelissimo o Sr. D. Fernando no seu dia natalicio no anno de 1848
- Homenagem a Sua Magestade a Rainha de Portugal Dona Estephania
- Galeria das senhoras na Câmara dos senhores deputados, ou as minhas observações
- Elegia à morte das infelizes victimas assassinadas por Francisco de Mattos Lobo, na noute de 25 de Julho de 1841
- Elegia à morte de D. Marianna de Sousa Holstein
- Elegia à Morte da Duqueza de Palmella
- O Sonho ou os gemidos das classes inactivas
- Preces ou Cântico Devoto dedicado aos Fiéis Portugueses
- Lamentos à saudosa memoria de d. Maria Henriqueta do Casal Ribeiro
- Parabéns a Sua Magestade o Senhor D. Fernando pelo consorcio de Sua Augusta Filha a Princeza D. Marianna
- Apontamentos biographicos e poesia, sobre o infeliz José Pedro de Senna, capitão do brigue Marianna, naufragado em Aveiro
- A conquista de Túnis
- Júlia
- ''À minha pátria, memoria sobre um ramo de agricultura e commercio''