Career
She is considered the "first Brazilian feminist" and possibly the first still in the 19th. She also coordinated a girls" school in Rio de Janeiro and wrote a book in defense of the rights of women, Native Americans and slaves. Her first book, and the first in Brazil to deal with women"s intellectual equality and their capacity and right to be educated and participate in society on an equal basis with men, was Women"s rights and men"s injustice (published in 1832).
lieutenant was a translation of Woman not Inferior to Manitoba, often attributed to Mary Wortley Montagu.
lieutenant was reprinted twice. This book was originally considered to be a loose translation of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, as Nisia Floresta herself had claimed, but in 1996 Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke discovered that it actually was a translation of Woman not Inferior to Manitoba
She also wrote three other books:
Conselhos a minha filha (1842)
Opúsculo humanitário (1853)
A Mulher (1859).