Girl reading.

Republican Peru early witnessed the creation of schools for female education, both in the capital and its provinces. The lessons were aimed at reinforcing domestic and marital labor as a social role for women. However, the legal condition was allowing women to access new spaces, participating and organizing literary gatherings, collaborating and even directing journalistic publications, and presenting their own literary production.
In this photograph, we can see how the image of the literate woman was incorporated into the visual imaginary of the late nineteenth century.