Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho

• Name — Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho • Other Names — Maria de Sucena • Born — 1 February 1847 • Birthplace — Lisbon, Portugal • Died — 24 March 1921 • Place of death — Lisbon, Portugal • Occupation — Writer and poet • Burial Place — Prazeres Cemetery • Spouse — António Cândido Gonçalves Crespo • Mother — Maria Cristina de Almeida e Albuquerque • Father — José Vaz de Carvalho

The daughter of José Vaz de Carvalho and Maria Cristina de Almeida e Albuquerque, she was married to the poet António Cândido Gonçalves Crespo. She wrote for several newspapers in Portugal (Diário Popular, Repórter, Artes e Letras) and Brazil (Jornal do Comércio, Rio de Janeiro), under the pseudonym Maria de Sucena. As well as poetry, she wrote short stories, essays, biographies, and literary criticism. The collection of stories for children she wrote with her husband, Contos para os nossos filhos (Tales for our Children, 1886) was approved by the Board of Public Instruction for use in schools. She was one of the first women in Portugal who were concerned with women's subordinate status and in particular about improving the educational opportunities for Women in Portugal together with Francisca Wood, Alice Pestana, Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, Alice Moderno, Angelina Vidal, Antónia Pusich and Guiomar Torrezão. Her house was the first literary salon in Lisbon; they were hosts to Eça de Queiroz, Camilo Castelo Branco, Ramalho Ortigão and Guerra Junqueiro. In 1993, the municipality of Loures (where she had lived as a child) established a literary award in her name called the Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho Prize - Children's Literature (awarded 1937-1961). The 1938 winner was writer Maria Archer. She died in Lisbon, aged 74, and was buried there in the Prazeres Cemetery.

• Vida do Duque de Palmela D.Pedro de Sousa e Holstein, 1898–1903

• Mulheres e creanças: nota sobre educação, 1880

• Serões no Campo, 1877

• Uma Primavera de Mulher, 1867 • Vozes no Ermo, 1867

She also worked under the name Maria de Sucena. The authorities additionally record the headings Maria de Sucena and Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho. Her recorded language was Portuguese. She married António Cândido Gonçalves Crespo. Other recorded relations include Cândida Aires de Magalhães.

Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho is recorded with the occupation literary critic. Recorded as journalist, writer, poet and literary critic.

• Contos para os nossos filhos, 1886 • Contos e Fantasias, 1880