The fairy who came from Berlin to become the first teacher in Co...
Highly gifted, a prot茅g茅 of the Grimm brothers, she fell in love with her husband by letter and swapped Prussia for the land of Cam玫es. Carolina Micha毛lis was considered the wisest woman in Portugal, but she was as likely to write a grammar as to cook s...
The educator of women who was called 'a man of genius'
This analytical piece examines Maria Am谩lia Vaz de Carvalho as a pioneering educator of women whose public achievements were shadowed by private difficulties: her father鈥檚 harsh criticism of her poetry and her husband鈥檚 betrayal. Drawing on the narratives of Margarida Vila-Nova, Maria Jo茫o 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.