 Nisa Floresta married, had two children, at which time her husband died. She began teaching to support herself, and also writing. Unusually, she would publish in newspapers, which did much to spread her ideas. She happened to read Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, and was so taken by it, she translated it into Portuguese, rather freely, and attached her own thoughts to the matter, giving herself and her ideas a British stamp of approval, as it were. She was pretty unstoppable.