Micaela Hernández Aguirre (1830-1887), impresora

This research article completes the biographical profile of the Mexican printer Micaela Hernández Aguirre, originally from San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato, about whom some biographies and remarks have been written about the articles she published, her interest in promoting women's work in printing, the production of La Sombra de Arteaga. Official newspaper of the government of the State of Querétaro, La Internacional, with a socialist tinge, or El Cinco de Mayo with a military style in the city, among others. More details are given here about her articles on women's education published in general information newspapers and magazines for the female sex; the obstacles she overcame to develop the printer's trade; and the support of power relations that she used to integrate herself into the competition of male printers. In addition to studying the newspapers that came out of his workshop, it is noteworthy that this material is in the Collection of Miscellaneous Newspapers of the Reserved Fund of the National Newspaper Archive of Mexico. Without ignoring the analysis of the information about Micaela and her printing press published by nineteenth-century newspapers, where the National Digital Newspaper Archive of Mexico constitutes a primary research tool to document the biography of the printer Hernández, the notes she publishes and the printing work she carried out throughout 1871 to 1879.