João Augusto Novaes Vieira

João Augusto Novaes Vieira is a Portuguese-language author chiefly remembered for O senhor Dom Miguel I, e a senhora Dona Maria II, a short work first published in 1852 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.

The book compares Dom Miguel I and Queen Maria II and argues strongly from a Miguelist point of view, which suggests Novaes Vieira was writing as a political polemicist as much as a historian. Beyond that publication, reliable biographical details about his life have been difficult to confirm from the sources available here.

Because so little verified personal information is readily available, his reputation now rests less on a well-known life story than on the survival of this vivid, opinionated text from nineteenth-century Portugal.