Adélia Josefina de Castro Fonseca

Adélia Josefina de Castro Fonseca (Salvador, Bahia, 24 November 1827 — Rio de Janeiro, 9 December 1920) was a Brazilian poet.[1] Her parents were Justiniano de Castro Rebello and Adriana de Castro Rebello. She married Inácio Joaquim da Fonseca.[2] She published her poems in newspapers and books, and was a constant collaborator with the Almanaque de lembranças luso-brasileiro.[3] 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.[4]

Adélia Fonseca

Selected works
  • Echos de minha alma: poesias, 1865

References
  1. "USP disponibiliza obras de literatura em homenagem às mulheres". Epoch Times (in Portuguese). 8 March 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  2. Câmara, José Aurélio Saraiva (1969). "Capistrano de Abreu". Coleção Documentos brasileiros. José Olympio. 136: 234.
  3. Blake, Augusto Victorino Alves Sacramento (1883). Diccionario Bibliographico Brazileiro. 1. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Nacional. pp. 5–6.
  4. Memorial da vida de madre Maria José de Jesus, carmelita descalça, filha de Capistrano de Abreu. Rio de Janeiro: Convento Santa Teresa. 1968. p. 351.
  • Coletânea de poetas Bahianos. (1951) Aloysio de Carvalho y Editora Minverva, page 272. (in Portuguese)


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