Article Nº 0174 Writer, journalist or scholar Vol. I · pp. 100–101
Almeida (Dona Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e)
Original title: Almeida (D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e)
Madeiran poet (1847–1928) who published the verse collection Mosaicos under the pseudonym Bertha de Ataide.
She was born in Funchal in 1847 and belonged to an old Madeiran family.
In 1907 she collected some of her poems and published them in a volume of 114 pages under the pseudonym Bertha de Ataíde, with the title Mosaicos. This book, of which a 2nd edition appeared in 1909, has a preface by the distinguished writer Father Sena Freitas. The book Poetisas Portuguesas, published in 1917, which contains some poems by Dona Maria Helena de Atouguia, states that the 3rd edition of Mosaicos was soon to appear. She died in Lisbon in May 1928.
People mentioned
- D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida 1847–1928
- José Joaquim de Sena Freitas 1840–1913
Chronology
- Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida was born in Funchal.
- D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida published Mosaicos.
- The second edition of Mosaicos by D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida appeared.
- Poetisas Portuguesas, including poems by D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida, was published.
- D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida died in Lisbon.