Name Olivia Paoli Role Journalist | Died 1942 | |
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Olivia Paoli de Braschi (1855 - 1942) born in Ponce, Puerto Rico was a Puerto Rican suffragist, thinker, and activist who fought for the rights of women. She was married to the journalist radical-liberal Mario Braschi, who suffered persecution by the Spanish during the 1880s for political reasons. She was the founder of the first Theosophist lodge in Puerto Rico on December 31, 1906. She was also the director of the magazine La Estrella de Oriente, which was dedicated to publishing the movement's philosophical, religious, and esoteric texts. In her work as an activist, Paoli was a contemporary of Ana Roque, Beatriz Lassalle, Carmen Gomez, and Isabel Andreu de Aguilar. She was also one of the architects of the country's suffrate campaign from the 1920s, participating in the Social Suffragette League, of which she was its vice president.