 and she wrote two other books and volunteered as a nurse during a cholera epidemic in Rio, before returning to Europe in 1856. Only returning to Brazil in 1872, she remained until her death in 1885. Now, she was the first in Brazil to champion women's rights, also the rights of Native Americans and slaves. Some modern readers of her life and work have wondered how radical she really was, because she did not call for the torturing of the patriarchy, or even that there was a patriarchy, unless you consider paternalism as its equivalent.