La Luz del Porvenir
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FrequencyWeekly
PublisherJuan Torrents
FounderAmalia Domingo Soler
Founded1879
First issue22 May 1879
Final issueMay 1900
CountrySpain
Based inBarcelona)
LanguageSpanish

La Luz del Porvenir (Spanish: The Light of the Future) was a radical feminist weekly magazine which was published in Spain in the period 1879–1900. The magazine was a representative of feminist branch of spiritualism and Fourierist resonances.[1] It was one of the influential feminist magazines in the country.

History and profile

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La Luz del Porvenir was established by Amalia Domingo Soler in 1879.[2] Its full title was La Luz del Porvenir: Semanario Espiritista.[3] The first issue appeared on 22 May 1879 in Vila de Gràcia in Barcelona with the support of the director of the La Buena Nueva Spiritist Center, Luis Llach.[1] It was published by Juan Torrents on a weekly basis and adopted a spirist approach.[1][2] The magazine appeared on Wednesdays and consisted of single-column eight pages with no visual material.[4][5]

Amalia Domingo Soler also directed the magazine and published her writings on women's rights and secularism.[1] However, her name was not given in the masthead of the magazine.[6] Nearly all contributors of the weekly were women.[4] In addition to publishing articles La Luz del Porvenir acted as a fund-raising body for the poor and encouraged rationalist approaches to secular education.[3] In May 1884 Juan Torrents transferred the ownership and administration of the magazine to Amalia Domingo Soler.[1]

After publishing its first three issues La Luz del Porvenir was suspended by the government for forty-two weeks due to the publication of an article entitled “The idea of God”.[1] Between 8 December 1898 and 24 August 1899 the magazine was also closed down.[1] It folded in May 1900 when it was merged with the magazine of the Kardecist Spiritist Union of Catalonia (Unión Espiritista Kardecista de Cataluña) to form another magazine entitled Luz y unión (Spanish: Light and union).[1]

The Spanish National Library digitized the issues of La Luz del Porvenir covering the years 1884-1888.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Title: La Luz del porvenir (1879)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b Marina Cano (2021). "Transnational Feminism and Spanish Magazines at the Turn of the Century". Modernism/modernity. 28 (1): 47–65. doi:10.1353/mod.2021.0016. S2CID 234912887.
  3. ^ a b Lou Charnon-Deutsch (June 2017). "Review of Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879–1926". Revista Hispánica Moderna. 70 (1). JSTOR 90010096.
  4. ^ a b Judith Rideout (2017). Women's writing networks in Spanish magazines around 1900 (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. pp. 11, 29.
  5. ^ "Revista La Luz del Porvenir" (in Spanish). Curso Espíritas. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  6. ^ Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo; Lola Alvarez-Morales (2021). "Editorial Identities, Business Models, and Social Strategies: Spanish Women Editors in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 6 (1): 91. doi:10.21825/jeps.v6i1.15592. S2CID 237762453.
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