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Nísia Floresta

March 22, 2026

Nísia Floresta was a 19th-century writer and translator known as “the Brazilian Mary Wollstonecraft.” She published the first book on women’s rights in South America,…

Portrait of Nísia Floresta, a Brazilian writer and feminist.

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