Petrona Rosende

{{Short description|Argentine journalist and poet}}

Petrona Rosende (1797–1863) was the first female journalist in Argentina.{{cite web|url=http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?anno=2&depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.abgra.org.ar/documentos/pdf/newsletter/TESOROS_DE_LA_HEMEROTECA%255B1%255D.pdf&usg=ALkJrhjtiLLJPW5zZbOWR5iCxnBm657EsQ|title=Google Translate|access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoEXWpPmqlQC&pg=PA167 |title=Women and Print Culture in Post-independence Buenos Aires|isbn=9781855661967|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=MacIntyre|first1=Iona|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }} She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but during Montevideo's occupation by Brazil she moved to Buenos Aires.{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DS95nSsu4U9MC%26pg%3DPA140%26lpg%3DPA140%26dq%3Dmontevideo%2Bpetrona%2Brosende%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DaKKZOuk--4%26sig%3DcZ1n1a03tJp7Voc5OA9CDAotRv8&anno=2|title=Google Translate|access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoEXWpPmqlQC&pg=PA167 |title=Women and Print Culture in Post-independence Buenos Aires|isbn=9781855661967|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=MacIntyre|first1=Iona|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }} She edited the feminist Buenos Aires periodical La Aljaba (which ran from 1830 to 1831).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0ffW3R7qsQC&pg=PA127 |title=The Politics of the Essay|isbn=0253115612|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=Joeres|first1=Ruth-Ellen B.|last2=Mittman|first2=Elizabeth|date=22 August 1993|publisher=Indiana University Press }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBdpE-aUchkC&pg=PA240 |title=The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas|isbn=9781845193997|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=Roces|first1=Mina|last2=Edwards|first2=Louise P.|year=2010|publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtyD_4e8gVUC&pg=PA265 |title=South American Independence|isbn=9781846310270|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=Davies|first1=Catherine|last2=Brewster|first2=Claire|last3=Owen|first3=Hilary|year=2006|publisher=Liverpool University Press }} Its motto was "We will be free of men's injustice only when we no longer live among them."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0ffW3R7qsQC&pg=PA127 |title=The Politics of the Essay|isbn=0253115612|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=Joeres|first1=Ruth-Ellen B.|last2=Mittman|first2=Elizabeth|date=22 August 1993|publisher=Indiana University Press }} All of its 18 issues are now held at the Museo Mitre.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtsvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA461 |title=Museo Mitre.|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=Biblioteca|first1=Museo Mitre|year=1907}}

In 1835 she went back to Montevideo.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoEXWpPmqlQC&pg=PA167 |title=Women and Print Culture in Post-independence Buenos Aires|isbn=9781855661967|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=MacIntyre|first1=Iona|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }} On June 20 of that year she published a patriotic sonnet titled Al arribo de mi patria in the newspaper El Nacional.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoEXWpPmqlQC&pg=PA167 |title=Women and Print Culture in Post-independence Buenos Aires|isbn=9781855661967|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=MacIntyre|first1=Iona|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }} That year she also opened the Casa de la Educación para Señoritas.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoEXWpPmqlQC&pg=PA167 |title=Women and Print Culture in Post-independence Buenos Aires|isbn=9781855661967|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=MacIntyre|first1=Iona|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }}

In 1861 she was granted a state pension for her services to Uruguay.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoEXWpPmqlQC&pg=PA167 |title=Women and Print Culture in Post-independence Buenos Aires|isbn=9781855661967|access-date=5 October 2014|last1=MacIntyre|first1=Iona|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }}

On March 8, 2011, Uruguay issued a stamp with her picture on it as part of its Bicentennial Women Series.{{cite web|url=http://www.nsotw.info/2011ury.html|title=New Stamps of the World >> Uruguay: 2011|access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wnsstamps.post/en/stamps/UY013.11|title=WNS: UY013.11 (Uruguayan Bicentenary Fourth Issue - Women - Josefa Oribe and Petrona Rosende)|access-date=5 October 2014}}