Article Nº 0852 Writer, journalist or scholar Vol. I · p. 500
Castelo Branco (Dona Joana de)
Original title: Castelo Branco (D. Joana de)
Biography of Joana de Castelo Branco (1856–1920), described as Madeira's most distinguished woman poet, born in Faial and resident in Lisbon.
She is the most distinguished woman poet of Madeira. She was born in the parish (freguesia) of Faial on 23 June 1856, the daughter of Caetano Velosa de Ornelas Castelo Branco and Dona Maria Rosa de Freitas. She has lived in Lisbon for many years now. She has contributed prose and verse to various newspapers. In book form she published As Minhas Flores, Lisbon, 1905, 94 pp., and Fluctuaçôes, Lisbon, 1910, 88 pp. She died in Lisbon in 1920.
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