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Josephina Pinto Carneiro Perestrello
A little-known Portuguese writer from the late 19th century, she is remembered for a concise historical work on Portugal and the Marquis of Pombal. Her surviving record is sparse, which gives her book an added sense of discovery for modern readers.
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Factos Notaveis da Historia Portugueza e Biographia do Marquez de Pombal
by Josephina Pinto Carneiro Perestrello
About the author
Josephina Pinto Carneiro Perestrello is known from surviving catalog records as the author of Factos notaveis da historia Portugueza et biographia do Marquez de Pombal, published in 1882. The book focuses on notable moments in Portuguese history and on Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the Marquis of Pombal, a major figure in 18th-century Portugal.
Reliable biographical details about her life are hard to confirm from the sources available online. Even so, the publication of this work places her among Portuguese writers whose historical interests were preserved through library records and later digitization projects such as Project Gutenberg and HathiTrust.
Because so little personal information is readily documented, her work remains the clearest introduction to her voice: brief, historical, and centered on an influential Portuguese statesman.