Emília Pomar
Emília Pomar de Sousa Machado (born July 1, 1857 in Cacilhas , † November 15, 1944 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese writer and poet of spiritualism .
Career
She was the daughter of the merchant Júlio Pomar, who originally came from Galicia and had settled in Cacilhas with a warehouse for olives. Her foreign language skills included Italian, French, Spanish and Latin. From the French she translated the novel Le Crime de Jean Malory by Ernest Daudet , which was published in 1885 under the title O crime do João Malory in the feature section of the newspaper O Sul do Tejo .
Her poem Ignota Almada , in which she describes the resistance of the residents of Almada against the Castilian troops during the Battle of Lisbon in 1384, was set to music by Leonel Duarte Ferreira . For more than 30 years she worked for the magazine Luz e Caridade .
In her hometown of Cacilhas, the Rua Emília Pomar was named after her.
Works
- A pecadora
literature
- Henrique Mota: Personalidades Cacilhenses , 1987
- Manuela Vasconselos: Grandes Vultos do Movimento Espírita Português
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pomar, Emilia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pomar de Sousa Machado, Emilia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese writer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cacilhas |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1944 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |