Ana Eurídice Eufrosina de Barandas (born 1806) was a Brazilian poet, short story writer and feminist author. She has been called the first Brazilian woman novelist.
Life
Ana de Barandas was born in
Porto Alegre
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in 1806. She was born into a conservative middle-class Portuguese family, the daughter of Joaquim da Fonseca Barandas, a Portuguese surgeon, and his wife Ana Felícia do Nascimento. In 1822, aged 16, she married a Portuguese lawyer, Joaquim Pena Penalta, with whom she had two daughters and a son who died in infancy. Ana and her husband lived in
Rio de Janeiro
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to escape the
Farroupilha War, and returned to Porto Alegre in 1841. She divorced her husband in 1841, managing to secure full responsibility for her two surviving children as well as keeping property acquired from the marriage.
de Barandas is likely to have known the feminist writer
Nísia Floresta
Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, pseudonym of Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto, (October 12, 1810 in Papari, Rio Grande do Norte – April 24, 1885 in Rouen, France) was a Brazilian educator, translator, writer, poet, philosopher, and feminist. ...
. She began to write during the Farroupilha War, and some writings were collected and published in ''Ramalhete'' (1845). Contained in the volume were: some love sonnets; 'a queda de Safo', an allegorical story; 'Lembrança saudosa', an account of the destrucion of her childhood home in Belmonte; 'Eugênia ou a Filósofa apaixonada', a romantic story; and 'Diálogos', a philosophical dialogue in which a young women Mariana argues against her father and cousin to defend the reasoning abilities of women and the appropriateness of women's participation in political debate.
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The date of her death is unknown,][ though has sometimes been given as 1856.][
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Works
* ''O ramalhete ou flores escolhidas no jardim da imaginação'' he bouquet, or flowers chosen from the garden of imagination 1845. 2nd ed. (ed. Hilda Hübner Flores) ''O ramalhete''. Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil: Nova Dimensão: EDIPUCRS, 1990.
References
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1806 births
Year of death unknown
19th-century Brazilian writers
19th-century Brazilian women writers
Brazilian feminist writers
People from Porto Alegre
Brazilian people of Portuguese descent