Portrait of Rosa Sevilla de Alvero
Excelsior, a Spanish newspaper, prints a portrait of suffragist Rosa Sevilla de Alvero in its 818th issue. She was the founder and director of the Instituto de Mujeres of Manila, the first Catholic school for women in the Philippines. In addition, she was a strong advocate for women’s right to vote and often gave discourses at important public gatherings defending equality between the genders, family as a social institution, and stressed the importance of women’s role in society.
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Fecha
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1929-02-10
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Fuente
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“Doña Rosa Sevilla de Alvero.” Excelsior, year XXVI, num. 818, February 10, 1929. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Formato original
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Photograph
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Georgiana Sara Negrutiu
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Relación
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Gardinier, David E., and Josefina Z. Sevilla-Gardinier. 1989. “Rosa Sevilla de Alvero and the Instituto de Mujeres of Manila.” Philippine Studies 37 (1): 29-51.
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Idioma
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Spanish
