A figura feminina na escrita de Jane Austen e Júlia Lopes de Almeida

This thesis has as one of its main objectives to analyse comparatively the novels Razão e Sensibilidade (1811), written by Jane Austen, and Memórias de Marta (1888), written by Júlia Lopes de Almeida, focusing on the compositional development of its characters: Marianne Dashwood and Marta. Based on a related bibliography, we discuss as a central theme the books already mentioned here the fictional representation of its female figures. It is necessary to present a breaf contextualization of the writers’ life and the period they lived, with the purpose of highlight how this fact could have contributed on the theme’s choice addressed by the authors in their books, this way emphasizing how these writers have questioned the woman’s issue. Being so, we seek for raise interpretative hypothesis about the literary path of the writers as well as compositional aspects of the female characters in consideration of the nineteenth woman’s insertion both in England and in Brazil.