Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho
1847–1921
Biography
Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho (1847–1921) was a Portuguese writer and poet. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, an honour that few women of her time received. Her output was in verse and prose.
Contos e Fantasias, whose title means 'Tales and Fantasies', is the book on this site credited to her. It is a collection of short stories, a form in which she wrote alongside her poetry, and it is one of the ways her work can still be read today.
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Books
Contos e Fantasias
by Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho
A collection by Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho. The first part gathers short stories, among them Uma História Verdadeira, O Tio Sebastião and A Morte de Bertha, and the second adds literary and biographical sketches such as Madame de Balzac and Lincoln e Grant. This book uses the…
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