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She was Lisbon's first female physician, completed the fourth class of schooling as an adult, sewed the Republic's first flags, and was also the first Grand Mistress of Portuguese Freemasonry. An incredible life.
A poet, journalist and teacher, she challenged Cesário Verde to a duel and founded A Voz do Operário. Angelina Vidal (1853–1917) demanded justice for working women — and justice left her to starve.
Highly gifted, a protégé of the Grimm brothers, she fell in love with her husband by letter and swapped Prussia for the land of Camões. Carolina Michaëlis was considered the wisest woman in Portugal, but she was as likely to write a grammar as to cook s...
Home Curiosity Nuno Alvares Pereira 24/6/1360 - 1/11/1431 Nuno Alvares Pereira 24/6/1360 - 1/11/1431 Nuno Alvares was born to unmarried parents and descended from Portuguese and Galician nobility.
