Juana Paula Manso

Juana Paula Manso (June 26, 1819 – April 24, 1875) was an Argentine writer, translator, journalist, teacher and feminist who advocated for better educational reform and better educational accessibility for women.

Biography Juana Paula Manso, also known as Juana (Paula) Manso de Noronha, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 26, 1819. Coming from a liberal and progressive family, Manso's father, José Maria Manso, had a highly educated background and worked as an engineer and took great pride in his daughter's education and intelligence. The Manso family's liberal political ideologies soon caused trouble for them when the Rosas government came into power, and in 1840 Manso and the rest of her family were forced from their home in Buenos Aires and exiled to Montevideo, Uruguay (where she first published a few of her poems in a local newspaper, El Nacional, in 1841)

In 1844, Manso married Francisco de Saá Noronha, a Portuguese violinist. While in Rio de Janeiro, Manso focused her energy on teaching and educating girls,