Uma imigrante britânica no Paraná na segunda metade do século XIX: na escrita de seu diário, memória, história e representação de si.

Immigrants of British stock were among the people hailing from innumerous nationalities that flocked to the southern state of Paraná, Brazil, during the mid-19th century. Although a fact hardly mentioned in modern historiography, British immigration to Brazil was unsuccessful. Current paper deals with the British enterprise in Brazil and the reasons for its failure, with special reference to the life of Caroline Tamplin. The Tamplin family arrived in the then province of Paraná in 1868 and immediately settled in the Assunguy Colony. Caroline's husband died in 1874 but she remained in the colony for the next six years. In 1880 she and her two children moved to Curitiba where she published an advertisement in the newspaper Dezenove de Dezembro of April 1880 announcing that she was giving lessons in languages, painting and piano. Current research is foregrounded on her diary written between 1880 and 1882 and the memoirs of her grandson written in the 1950s. Other sources, such as the main newspaper of the period, correspondence and official reports, were compounded to the above documents. The theoretical presuppositions of Cultural History authors make one understand how an outsider widow established herself in the province's capital city and problematizes her writing on her experience as cultural practice and a strategy for the construction of identities. Manners of representation triggered by a concern for building one's good image may be perceived in her behavior. Reading Tamplin's diary and several articles in the newspapers of the period reveals daily life, modes of thinking and living of a section of society during the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]