Narcisa Amália

Narcisa Amália de Oliveira Campos (São João da Barra, 3 April 1856 - Rio de Janeiro, 24 June 1924) was a Brazilian poet, professional journalist, and women's rights activist.

Biography

Narcisa Amália was born in São João da Barra in 1856. In addition to several newspapers, she wrote for O Sexo Feminino (1870s), and collaborated in the journal A leitura (Reading; 1894-1896). After publishing her debut book of poetry, the romantic Nebulosas, Amália became engaged in a bitter dispute as it "was attributed to a 'young man' who borrowed her name".^[1] She later published Miragem, Nelumbia and O Romance da Mulher que Amou. Driven by strong social sensitivity, she fought against women's oppression. A women's rights activist, her 1892 book A Mulher do Século XIX (Women of the Nineteenth Century), was a call to women to fight for their rights.^[2]

Some of her writing was published in a work by Antônio Simões dos Reis.^[3] Critical study of her work has been done by Christina Ramalho in Um espelho para Narcisa: Reflexos de uma voz romantica (1999).^[4]

Selected works

• Nebulosas, 1872
• Miragem
• Nelumbia
• O Romance da Mulher que Amou
• A Mulher do Século XIX

References

• Narcisa Amália de Antônio Simões dos Reis, Organização Simões, 1949.
• Panorama da poesia brasileira de Antônio Soares Amora, Edgard Cavalheiro, 1959, p. 296.
• Mulher brasileira, Fundação Carlos Chagas, 1981, p. 355.
• Elas, as pioneiras do Brasil: a memorável saga dessas mulheres de Hebe C Boa-Viagem A Costa, 2005, p. 173.

Bibliography

• Hahner, June Edith (1990). Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1051-1. 
• Pinto, Cristina Ferreira (2004). Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-century Brazilian Women's Literature. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-55753-352-4. 
• Quinlan, Susan Canty (1991). The Female Voice in Contemporary Brazilian Narrative: Texte Imprimé. Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8204-1281-8.