Francisca Clotilde
Brazilian writer (1862-1935)
Francisca Clotilde (19 October 1862 – 8 December 1935) was a Brazilian writer. She was an advocate for women's rights and an abolitionist. Her most noted work was The Divorced Woman in 1902 and the literary magazine A Estella.
Life
Clotilde was born in 1862 in Tauá in north eastern Brazil. Her parents were João Correia Lima and Ana Maria Castelo Branco. She was an abolitionist, and known as an advocate for women's rights. She worked as a translator, and she published short stories, poems and articles under the pseudonym Jane Davy. She wrote articles for the fortnightly A Quinzena and several newspapers at a time when writing was unusual. She was the first women to teach at the Normal School in Fortaleza from 1884. She lost that job because of her opinions.
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