Adélia Fonseca
Illustration — Adélia Fonseca Adélia Josefina de Castro Fonseca (24 November 1827 in Salvador, Bahia – 9 December 1920 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian poet. Her parents were Justiniano de Castro Rebello and Adriana de Castro Rebello. She married Inácio Joaquim da Fonseca.
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Adélia Fonseca

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- Full name
- Adélia Josefina de Castro Rebelo.
- Born
- 1827. · Salvador.
- Died
- 1920. · Rio de Janeiro.
- Nationality
- Brazil.
- Occupation
- poet, pianist, painter, writer and journalist.
- Languages
- Portuguese.
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Illustration — Adélia Fonseca Adélia Josefina de Castro Fonseca (24 November 1827 in Salvador, Bahia – 9 December 1920 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian poet. Her parents were Justiniano de Castro Rebello and Adriana de Castro Rebello. She married Inácio Joaquim da Fonseca.
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She published her poems in newspapers and books, and was a constant collaborator with the Almanaque de lembranças luso-brasileiro. Towards the end of her life, she entered the Convent of Santa Teresa, in Rio de Janeiro, adopting the name of Mother Maria José de Jesús.
• Echos de minha alma: poesias, 1865
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Aloysio de Carvalho. Coletânea de poetas Bahianos. Editora Minverva; 1951. p. 25.
- 2.Schuma Schumaher; Erico Vital Brazil. Dicionário mulheres do Brasil: de 1500 até a atualidade : com 270 ilustrações. J. Zahar; 2000. ISBN 978-85-7110-573-7. p. 22.
- 3.BLAKE, Augusto Victorino Alves Sacramento. Diccionario Bibliographico Brazileiro. 1.
- 4.Domingos Carvalho da Silva. Vozes femininas da poesia brasileira: ensaio histórico-literário. Conselho Estadual de Cultura, Comissão de Literatura; 1959.
- 5.2018.
- 6.ArqRio - Arquidiocese de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
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