Ana Plácido
Portuguese writer
Intro | Portuguese writer | |
A.K.A. | Ana Augusta Vieira Plácido | |
A.K.A. | Ana Augusta Vieira Plácido | |
Places | Portugal | |
was | Writer | |
Work field | Literature | |
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Birth | 27 September 1831 | |
Death | 20 September 1895 (aged 64 years) |
Ana Plácido (1831—1895) was a Portuguese novelist and author. Her best known work is the 1871 novel Herança de Lágrimas (English: A Legacy of Tears), and she is also noted for an autobiographical book Luz Coada por Ferros (English: Light Filtered Through Bars; published in 1863). She was married to the author Camilo Castelo Branco, with whom she earlier had an extra-marital affair while he was married.
Herança de Lágrimas tells the story of a married woman named Diana who decides not to engage in adultery after reading the story of her mother's fate after doing similarly. The novel was written to try and "voice a female-centred perspective on life" according to the academics Hilary Owen and Cláudio Pazos Alonso.