Cláudia de Campos

Maria Cláudia de Campos (January 28, 1859 – December 30, 1916), also known as Maria Cláudia de Campos Matos, was a Portuguese feminist and writer, best known for her 1899 novel Elle. She was on the Board of Directors of the 's Feminist Sector and a member of the Portuguese Committee of the Women's League for Peace and Disarmament.

Biography Cláudia de Campos was born in 1859 in Sines, Portugal, the daughter of Francisco António de Campos and Maria Augusta da Palma. Her grandfather, Jacinto da Palma, was health chief for the Port of Sines.

An educated woman, de Campos was fluent in French.

Her first book, the short story collection Rindo, appeared in 1892. She has been described as one of "the first ambassadors of Portuguese feminism."

She died in Lisbon in 1916. Nearly a century after the publication of her 1899 novel Elle, it was reprinted in Sines in 1997.

Selected works

Rindo: contos (1892) Último amor (1894) Mulheres. Ensaios de psicologia feminina (1895)

Elle: com o retracto da auctora (1899) A baroneza Stael e o duque de Palmella (1901) Elle (2nd ed., 1997)