Cartas para Almeida Garrett : lembranças do exílio

• Main Author: Maria do Rosário Alves Moreira da Conceição
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Porto 2017-08-01
• Series: CEM: Cultura, Espaço & Memória
• Subjects: Almeida Garrett; liberalism; letters; exile
• Online Access: http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/14805.pdf

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and presente private letters received by the writer João Baptista de Almeida Garrett in the period in wich he was in exile. They are a set of 25 letters, aproximately, written by his mother, Family and friends in a troubled momento of the history of Portugal. I chose three moments of Garrett’s exile. The first occured between the years 1823 and 1826, it was a time of crises, where the most radical liberals are fleeing and secret societes are dissolved, The second occured between the years of 1828 and 1832, because of the return of D. Miguel to Portugal and the probable political hardening against the liberals. The third, wich I classify as «exile», but had diferente characteristics from the others, occured between the year of 1834 and 1836. In that period Garrett was removed from Portugal, wich was devastated by a civil war, under the pretext of composing a diplomatic mission. All the letters chosen are part of the literary collection located in the reserved sector of the University Library of Coimbra