ANNA VERTUA GENTILE'S INDEFATIGABLE DEDICATION AS EDUCATOR AND WOMEN WRITER

Abstract

Anna Vertua Gentile was a teacher and writer at a fundamental
time in the history of Italy, since she lived through the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries as a direct witness of the political, social
and cultural changes in which the country was submerged before
and after of its unification as Kingdom. She was one of the most
productive and indefatigable authors of the moment and enjoyed
great success, cultivating different literary genres: stories for boys
and girls, children's plays, in addition to the so-called "behavior
manuals", aimed in particular at female public with a clearly
pedagogical and educational purpose. However, like so many other
women writers, she was forgotten and her work was hardly
translated. With this article, we intend to rescue his figure in order
to be justly recognized.