A Normalista
By Adolfo Caminha
Cover: Deveres (1910), painting by Eliseu Visconti (1866–1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)
Maria do Carmo, a young woman training as a teacher in Fortaleza, lives under the roof of her godfather, a clerk named João da Mata, and has a head full of novels and marriage. Adolfo Caminha's novel of 1893 is a bitter, close picture of provincial society in the north-east of Brazil.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.