Júlia Lopes de Almeida
1862–1934
Biography
Júlia Lopes de Almeida was a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, chronicler and playwright, born in Rio de Janeiro in September 1862 and dying there in May 1934. She began writing for newspapers in 1881, and over a career of about five decades she worked in almost every prose form: novels, stories, chronicles, plays and books for children. Her husband was the poet Filinto de Almeida, and she spoke out for the abolition of slavery and for a wider role for women, including their education.
Her fiction was shaped by the French naturalists Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, and it looks closely at family life and at the money and status that hold families together or pull them apart. Memórias de Marta, often named as the first Brazilian novel set in an urban tenement, and A Família Medeiros (1892) are among her best-known novels. Her children's books, written around 1900 and 1917, were among the first original works for children published in Brazil rather than translations from Europe. Her work later fell into obscurity as Brazilian modernism took hold, and several of her books have been republished in recent years.
Two of her novels are on this site: A Falência (The Bankruptcy, 1901), whose title names the financial collapse at its centre, and A Intrusa (The Intruder, 1908), which first ran as a newspaper serial in Rio de Janeiro in 1905. Both show the attention to domestic life and money that runs through her work.
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Books
A Falência
by Júlia Lopes de Almeida
A merchant of Rio de Janeiro, his household and his wife are at the centre of Júlia Lopes de Almeida's best-known novel, a study of money, pride and a family's way of living in the capital at the turn of the century. Domestic scenes and the world of trade run side by side.
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.A Intrusa
by Júlia Lopes de Almeida
On a rainy night in Rio de Janeiro four friends talk in the house of the lawyer Argemiro Cláudio at Cosme Velho, and the book follows his family afterwards. Júlia Lopes de Almeida writes a domestic novel about a household disturbed by someone who does not belong.
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.