O Que Fazem Mulheres
By Camilo Castelo Branco
Cover: Retrato de D. Elvira Rego (1917), painting by José Malhoa (1855–1933) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1933)
A mother in Porto asks her daughter Ludovina if she has thought what to say to her father, who has found her a husband she has not yet seen. Camilo's philosophical romance follows the women of a middle-class household and what they do in the face of a match made for them.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.