The Lady of a sugar mill in the world of literature

History, memoirs and cultural identity in the work of Anna Ribeiro de Góes Bittencourt (1843-1930)

Abstract

The elite of Bahia in the ends, in the beginning of the century XIX, went by a period of economical and social difficulties due to the decline of the agricultural activities for export. Such context took many members of the learned elite to write texts about nostalgic times of opulence and formers abundance of the Bay area. Writer Anna Ribeiro (1843-1930), it was member of that group. This article analyzes Anna ribeiro´s memoirs and it proposes a comparison with the other publications and manuscripts of her authorship. An analysis of the sources indicates that the author registered in their memoirs some "golden" events that you reinforced her identification with the class of you of mill and, at the same time, she "hid" the decadence process lived by that same group.