J.P. d’Oliveira Martins nas minas de Santa Eufémia (1870-1874)

• Main Author: Eloy Fernández Clemente
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação de Actividades Científicas 2008-05-01
• Series: Ler História
• Subjects: Oliveira Martins; mining; Santa Eufémia (mines)
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/2400

In 1870, at only 25, Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins was a well established writer well connected with the Portuguese literary world. However, with the bankruptcy of the company Ellicot, Abreu & C.ª, in which he worked for the administration board, he was forced to look for a new way of life. He then accepted to work as a director in a Portuguese mine that belonged to the Companhia de Minas Fundição de Chumbo de Santa Eufémia, located at Cordoba, in Spanish Andaluzia, where he stayed between 1870 and 1874. Giving priority to mining corporate sources and correspondence, it’s mada an attempt to re-create Oliveira Martins’s stay in Spain – so far only partially known, and the way this experience influenced his relations and future work.