Adelina Lopes Vieira
# Adelina Lopes Vieira

Adelina Amélia Lopes Vieira (1850 - 1922 or 1933) was a Brazilian poet, playwright and children's writer.

## Life

Born in Lisbon, she came to Brazil as a young child, and graduated as a teacher around 1870. Contos Infantis (1886) was written with her sister Julia Lopes de Almeida. In 1899 she contributed to A Mensageira, a literary magazine edited by Presciliana Duarte de Almeida which was aimed at Brazilian women. At the start of the twentieth century she wrote and translated several plays.

## Works

* Saudade de palmeiras e No echo das damas, 1879
* Margaritas, 1879
* (with Julia Lopes de Almeida) Contos Infantis [Children's Tales], 1886.
* Destinos, 1890
* A viagem de Murilo
* As duas doses
* Expiação
* (trans.) A terrina by Ernest d’Hervilly, 1907
