Álbum de leitura de Rachel de Queiroz

Abstract

In Brazil, in the decades of 1930 to 1960, a novel collection became very popular and consumed by young women from the medium class. These romances were translated and edited by Companhia Editora Nacional (SP), they were sold all over the country with the title Coleção Biblioteca das moças. The collection was composed by 175 volumes and most of them were written by M. Delly (35 volumes). M. Delly was a pseudonym of a couple of French brothers – Fréderic Henri Petitjean de La Rosiére (1870 – 1949) and Jeanne-Marie Henriette Petitjean de La Rosiére (1875-1947). One of the readers of this collection was Rachel de Queiroz (who will be emphasized in this work). Rachel in one of her books called Tantos Anos – Uma biografia, mentions three books from this collection: Corações Inimigos, Freirinha and Mitsi. Rachel, exactly like other thousand of Brazilian readers, found in these books an escape of this sad reality. Knowing the importance that this collection had for the feminine public during the decades of 30 to 60, this work intends to talk about the well succeed relation between the books of this collection and the readers, and wants to recover the image of the empiric writer Rachel de Queiroz.