J%C3%BAlia Lopes de Almeida

Jlia Valentina de Silveira Lopes de Almeida was one of the first Brazilian women to earn acclaim and social acceptance as a writer. In a career that spanned five decades, she wrote in a variety of literary genres however, it is her fiction, written under the influence of the naturalists mile Zola and Guy de Maupassant, that has captured the attention of recent critics. Her notable novels include Memrias de Marta , the first Brazilian novel to take place in an urban tenement, A Famlia Medeiros , and A Falncia . Immensely influential and appreciated by peers like Alusio Azevedo, Joo do Rio and Joo Luso, she is remembered as an early advocate of modernized gender roles and increased womens rights, as a precursor to later women writers like Clarice Lispector, and for her support of abolition. She was married to the poet Filinto de Almeida.

Lopes de Almeida was born in September 24, 1862 in Rio de Janeiro. She was daughter of the Visconde de So Valentim . Her career started in a newspaper of Campinas, the Gazeta de Campinas, in 1881. That year brought several shifts to Brazilian literature, namely the work Memrias Pstumas de Brs Cubas of Machado de Assis. Lopes de Almeida followed the new trends however, her fame was ephemeral.

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