La lectora de periódicos.

When do the first representations of newspaper reading women in the 19th Century Argentina begin to appear? What is the relevance of their profile in the politicalcultural debates of the revolutionary era? What do women read in the press, and how do they answer to the call of writers designing educational policies and reading programs for them? This article aims to answer these questions by means of a select corpus of newspapers from the beginning of the century (El Telégrafo Mercantil, El Semanario de Agricultura y Comercio, El Correo del Comercio, El Observador Americano, La Gazeta de Buenos Aires). Likewise, the article delves into literary and artistic representations to figure out the imaginaries and practices of reading women at the origins of the formation of the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]