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Article Nº 3107 Writer, journalist or scholar Vol. III · p. 308

Read Cabral (Guilherme)

Azorean writer who directed the Funchal customs house from 1892 to 1895 and published a historical novel and a poem on Columbus in Funchal.

An Azorean writer, now deceased, who served as director of the Funchal customs house from 1892 to 1895. In this city he published in 1895 a book entitled Ângela Santa Clara, with pretensions to being a historical novel, which makes pleasant reading despite the anachronisms and fictions with which it is packed. He also published a pamphlet with a poem dedicated to Christopher Columbus (Funchal, 1892).

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  • Guilherme Read Cabral served as director of the Funchal customs house.
  • Guilherme Read Cabral published in Funchal a pamphlet with a poem dedicated to Columbus.
  • Read Cabral published 'Um Novo Mundo' and the novel 'Angela Santa Clara' in Funchal.
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