Hybrids Texts: Women's Chronicles at the Turn of the Century (XIX-XX) in Chilean Press

This article focuses on women’s chronicles at the turn of the Century in Chile. It analyses a corpus of heterogeneous texts that could be understood as chronicles; which integrates features from letters and gender essays. The analysis it is focused on the use that women writers do of them as well as the critical features of these hybrids texts. Therefore, this type of text allows women express opinions using the characteristics of each of these genres (letters and essays), showing deep reflexions in the context of gendered norms of reading and writing.