Ana Plácido

Ana Plácido

Portuguese writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroPortuguese writer
A.K.A.Ana Augusta Vieira Plácido
A.K.A.Ana Augusta Vieira Plácido
PlacesPortugal
wasWriter
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Female
Birth27 September 1831
Death20 September 1895 (aged 64 years)
The details

Biography

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.

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