La Luz del Porvenir

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.

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

History and profile

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
  1. "Title: La Luz del porvenir (1879)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. 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. Lou Charnon-Deutsch (June 2017). "Review of Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879–1926". Revista Hispánica Moderna. 70 (1). JSTOR 90010096.
  4. 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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