Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira

Olga Moraes Sarmento da Silveira (née Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira; known also as, Olga Morais Sarmento; 26 May 1881 – 17 October 1948) was a Portuguese writer and feminist.

Olga Moraes Sarmento da Silveira
BornMaria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira
26 May 1881
Setúbal, Portugal
Died17 October 1948(1948-10-17) (aged 67)
Lisbon, Portugal
Occupationwriter, feminist
NationalityPortuguese
PartnerBaroness Hélène van Zuylen (companion)

Early years

Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira was born in Setúbal, 26 May 1881. She was a daughter and granddaughter of military men, spending part of her childhood in Elvas, where she became a friend of Virgínia Quaresma.[1] She married a Navy physician when she was 16,[2] who died shortly afterwards in combat, in Cuamato, Angola.

Career

Moraes associated with a group of Portuguese intellectuals, who at the beginning of the 20th century, fought for civil rights, as well as women's legal and political rights. She succeeded Ana de Castro Osório as editor-in-chief of Sociedade Futura (founded 1902). She affiliated with Liga Portuguesa da Paz (Portuguese League of Peace), cofounding the organization and serving as president of its Feminist Section in 1906.

On May 18, 1906, Moraes delivered a lecture on "Problema Feminista" (Feminist Problem) at the Sociedad de Geografía de Lisboa.[3] She also traveled as a lecturer to South America, visiting Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. In Brazil, she met and became friends with the writer Júlia Lopes de Almeida.[4]

Personal life

Moraes lived in Paris during the First World War. For more than thirty years, she was a companion and partner of Baroness Hélène van Zuylen, of the Rothschild banking family of France, whom she saved from the Holocaust by taking her to Lisbon and then to New York City.[5] She also devoted herself to writing the Baroness' memoirs.

Moraes was closely linked to her city of birth, Setúbal, leaving all her assets to the Municipal Chamber, including her personal library and a vast collection of autographs of personalities from art, music and literature in postcards, letters, and books. This legacy is part of the collection of the Museo de Setúbal/Convento de Jesús.[6] She died in Lisbon, 17 October 1948.[7]

Selected works
  • Problema Feminista (1906)[8]
  • Mulheres illustres: A Marqueza de Alorna (sua influencia na sociedade portuguesa, 1750-1839) (1907)
  • Arte, Literatura & Viagens (1909)
  • A Infanta Dona Maria e a Corte Portuguesa (1909)
  • La Patrie Brésilienne (1912)
  • Sa Majesté la Reine Amélie de Portugal, Princesse de France (1924)
  • Teófilo Braga: Notas e Comentários (1925)
  • As Minhas Memórias: Tempo Passado, Tempo Ausente (1948)

Honors

References
  1. "Maria Olga de Morais Sarmento da Silveira". En: Dicionário no Feminino (séculos XIX-XX), dirección de Zília Osório de Castro y João Esteves, coord. António Ferreira de Sousa, Ilda Soares de Abreu e Maria Emília Stone (Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2005), pp. 736-37.
  2. "Olga de Morais Sarmento [da Silveira] (1881–1948)". Associação Portuguesa de Mulheres Cientistas. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  3. SARMENTO, Olga Moraes. As Minhas Memórias (Lisboa: Portugália, 1948), pp. 189.
  4. SARMENTO, Olga Moraes.
  5. As Minhas Memórias, pp. 312-13.
  6. "Olga Moraes Sarmento (1881-1948)". Municipal de Setúbal. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  7. INDEX 2014, p. 392.
  8. Moraes Sarmento da Silveira 1906, p. 1.

Attribution
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:

Moraes Sarmento da Silveira, Olga (1906). Problema feminista (Public domain ed.). F.L. Gonçalves.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Bibliography
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