As personagens femininas na obra Regina de Ana Plácido: a insubmissão das lágrimas.

The aim of this article is to analyze Ana Plácido's approach to portraying nineteenth-century women, as she designed the female characters in her incomplete work Regina, a novel published in 1868. The article argues that Ana Plácido defied and reinterpreted the nineteenth-century gender norms and social expectations, creating characters that align with the patriarchal society of that era while deploying narrative strategies that deviate from the commonplace values associated with nineteenth-century hegemonic masculinity. The article pursues an analysis arrayed along three argumentative lines: "1. The narrative of innocence," which demonstrates Ana Plácido's pioneering approach in narrating marriage (through female obedience) from the perspective of young girls compelled to marry much older men; "2. Female complicity," which appears to be the central point of the author's opposition to the patriarchal narrative; and "3. The insubordination of tears," which is fundamental to understanding the non-submissiveness of the novel's female characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]