La Luz del Porvenir (meaning The Light of the Future in English) was a radical feminist weekly magazine which was published in Spain in the period 1879–1900. The magazine was a representative of feminist branch of spiritualism and Fourierist resonances.[1] It was one of the influential feminist magazines in the country.
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La Luz del Porvenir was established by Amalia Domingo Soler in 1879.[2] Full title was La Luz del Porvenir: Semanario Espiritista.[3] The first issue appeared on 22 May 1879 in Vila de Gràcia in Barcelona with the support of the director of the La Buena Nueva Spiritist Center, Luis Llach.[1] It was published by Juan Torrents on a weekly basis and adopted a spirist approach.[1][2] The magazine appeared on Wednesdays and consisted of single-column eight pages with no visual material.[4][5]
Amalia Domingo Soler also directed the magazine which published her writings on women’s rights and secularism.[1] However, her name was not given in the masthead of the magazine.[6] Nearly all contributors of the weekly were women.[4] In addition to publishing articles La Luz del Porvenir acted as a fund-raising body for the poor and encouraged rationalist approaches to secular education.[3] In May 1884 Juan Torrents transferred the ownership and administration of the magazine to Amalia Domingo Soler.[1]
After publishing its first three issues La Luz del Porvenir was suspended by the government for forty-two weeks due to the publication of an article entitled “The idea of God”.[1] Between 8 December 1898 and 24 August 1899 the magazine was also closed down.[1] In May 1900 it folded and was merged with the magazine of the Kardecist Spiritist Union of Catalonia (Unión Espiritista Kardecista de Cataluña) to form another magazine entitled Luz y unión (meaning Light and union in English).[1]
The Spanish National Library digitized the issues of La Luz del Porvenir covering the years 1884-1888.[1]
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