Brada

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Brada

1850–1938

A French novelist and journalist writing under the name Brada, she built a lively career in newspapers and magazines as well as fiction. Her work moved between society novels, travel writing, and literary portraiture, giving readers a sharp glimpse of late 19th- and early 20th-century life.

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About the author

Born in Paris on April 24, 1847, Brada was the pen name of Henrietta Consuela de Quigini Puliga. She was a French writer who also wrote in English, and library records identify her as a novelist.

She contributed to major publications including L'Illustration, Le Figaro, and La Revue de Paris, alongside publishing novels and other prose works under her pseudonym. Her career seems to have ranged widely, from fiction to social observation and travel-related writing.

Brada died in Paris on August 5, 1938. Though not widely read today, her long publishing life places her among the many women writers who helped shape the literary and journalistic world of her time.