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In addition to Father Baldomero, Aquilino also evokes Father Francisco Pinto Ferreira, Chaplain of the Lapa Sanctuary and Director of the Lapa College, which the writer attended.
She was a full professor and an authority on the study of Portuguese literature, having won the P.E.N. Essay Prize twice.
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...
This analytical piece examines Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho as a pioneering educator of women whose public achievements were shadowed by private difficulties: her father’s harsh criticism of her poetry and her husband’s betrayal. Drawing on the narratives of Margarida Vila-Nova, Maria João Lopo de Carvalho and Alexandre Borges, the article reassesses how a woman operating within a patriarchal literary culture came to be framed as 'a man of genius', and what that framing reveals about gender, authority and literary history.