Abstract
The Project investigates the literary novelty in the work Eles e Elas (1910), by Júlia Lopes de Almeida. The book was disqualified from the ABL literary works contest in 1911 for being composed of chronicles, which were first published in the newspaper. As a writer-journalist, Júlia Lopes de Almeida came out in defence of her own collection, arguing in her column in O Paiz that the work p…