Teresa is an 1886 novel by the Italian writer Neera, real name Anna Radius Zuccari.[1] The story of the heroine Teresa Caccia has parallels with Zuccari's own early life.[2]
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edit- ^ Silvia Valisa Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel 2014 1442619767 "If Sibilla Aleramo's Una donna (1906) can be considered the first explicitly feminist Italian novel, Teresa should be placed among the most important fin-de-siècle statements and indictments of the female condition and as such should be considered one of the indispensable predecessors of Aleramo's fictionalized memoir.
- ^ Rinaldina Russell ppItalian Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebookpp 0313283478 1994-p 289 Neera's novel, Teresa (1886), summarizes her thought in fictional form, and it draws strikingly on some parallels with her own early life. Teresa Caccia, the heroine, is a gentle and obedient child, who turns into a passionate but fundamentally ..