Bettencourt (Dona Maria do Monte de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de)
Original title: Bettencourt (D. Maria do Monte de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de)
Distinguished Funchal-born woman writer (c.1809–1884) who contributed to Madeiran newspapers and published two novels.
She was one of the most distinguished Madeiran women of her day for her virtue, intelligence and learning. She was born in Funchal around 1809, the daughter of Pedro de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt, and died in the same city on 12 August 1884. She contributed to several Madeiran newspapers and published two novels in book form: o Cura de São Lourenço, Lisbon, 1855, 183 pp., and Bernardo e a mesa de prata de D. Diniz, Funchal, 1879, 249 pp.
Although she was a contemporary, we have been unable to obtain any further biographical details about her.
- D. Maria do Monte de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt c. 1809–1884
- Maria de Bettencourt 1809–1884
- D. Maria do Monte de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt was born in Funchal.
- D. Maria de Bettencourt's novel 'O Cura de São Lourenço' was published in Lisbon.
- D. Maria de Bettencourt's works, including 'Bernardo e a mesa de prata de D. Diniz' and A Antoneida, were published in Funchal.
- D. Maria do Monte de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt died in Funchal.