ABSTRACT
No inconsiderable contribution to the work of progress is given by the two newpapers which are published by women. The first in age, being now in its tenth year, is the Donna, formerly published in Venice, but now in Bologna, by Signora Gualberta Alaide Beccari. It is devoted to subjects of education and morality, and is entirely written by ladies. The other paper, also published fortnightly, is the Cornelia, by Signora Aurelia. Cimino Folliero de Luna. It is now in the sixth year of its existence and is literary and educa.tional. Other newspapers, such as the Dovere in Rome, the Rassegna Settimanale in Florence, the Secolo in Milan, and the Naziol1e take up the questions of female education. In enumerating the courageous Italian ladies who are working so hard for the advancement of their sisters, we must not omit the English women who have adopted Italy as their second country, and throw all the force of their talents into the scale of progress. We may mention Jessie White Mario, whom the Italians have loved to call, for her exertions in organizing hospitals, during the wars of Independence, the Florence Nightingale of Ital" and whose recent book upon the miserable conditIon of the poor in Naples, has excited much attention. Georgina Saffi, and her sister, Miss Cranford. who are frequent contributors to the Donna, and ta.ke
2~ Past and Pr6lent Italian Wom,n rEuglllhwomu'.llevlew, • L - JUDe l~th, 111 •• an active part in the organization of working women's societies, and Signora Villari, known in England as a novelist, and who is also the author of several papers on education.
