Career
Her best known work is the 1871 novel Herança de Lágrimas (English: A Legacy of Tears), and she is also noted for an autobiographical book Luz Coada por Ferros (English: Light Filtered Through Bars. Published in 1863). Herança de Lágrimas tells the story of a married woman named Diana who decides not to engage in adultery after reading the story of her mother"s fate after doing similarly. The novel was written to try and "voice a female-centred perspective on life" according to the academics Hilary Owen and Cláudio Pazos Alonso.
