Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T19:29:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 15 / Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / Amélia Hartley de Brito Antunes Maciel – a Baronesa de Três Serros – escreveu um total de cento e cinqüenta e uma cartas, no período compreendido entre 1885 e 1918. A maioria delas foi remetida por Amélia após sua viuvez e transferência para o Rio de Janeiro e teve como destinatária a filha mais velha Amélia Aníbal Hartley Maciel, mais conhecida como Sinhá, que permaneceu em Pelotas (RS), morando no solar da família. A análise que empreendemos dessa “escrita de si” – e que apresentamos nesta Dissertação – fornece valiosas informações sobre como Amélia mantinha e estreitava seus vínculos familiares, sobre como administrava seu patrimônio e o orçamento doméstico, sobre seus sentimentos diante da doença, da morte e da velhice, sobre seus posicionamentos políticos, sobre suas leituras e vivência social, bem como sobre suas crenças e espiritualidade. As linhas escritas por Amélia, no entanto, mais do que reconstituir a trajetória de sua vida, revelam as nuances do modo de vida e do pensamento de um segmento social / Amélia Hartley de Brito Antunes Maciel – Baroness of Três Serros – wrote 151 letters between 1885 and 1918. Most of them were sent by Amélia after becoming a widow and being moved to Rio de Janeiro, to her oldest daughter Amélia Aníbal Hartley Maciel, known as Sinhá, who remained in Pelotas (RS) in her family’s manor. Our analysis of these “writings of herself” – which are shown in this work – provides valuable information about how Amélia kept her family links and made them closer, about how she ran her properties and her household budget, about her feelings towards her illness, death and old age, her politic positions, her readings and social life, as well as her beliefs and spirituality. However, more than reconstructing her life, these writings show us the shades of the way-of-life of privileged people in the beginning of the 20th Century focusing on the private and personal aspect, which is of little interest in historiography. In this perspective, we believe that our investigations contributes in a inn

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