Emília Freitas

Emília Freitas (11 January 1855 – 18 October 1908) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, and teacher. She wrote what is considered the first Brazilian fantasy novel, A Rainha do Ignoto (1899; The queen of the unknown), about a utopian society inhabited by women.

Life Freitas was born in 1855, in Aracati, in the then province of Ceará. She was the daughter of the lieutenant colonel Antonio José de Freitas and Maria de Jesus Freitas. After her father's death, the family moved to Fortaleza, where Freitas studied French, English, geography and arithmetic in a private school.

Later she moved to the Normal School, becoming a teacher. In 1873, she began to write poems for several literary newspapers of Ceará and Pará like O Libertador, O Cearense and O lyrio e a brisa. Most of these poems were later compiled in the volume titled Canções do lar (1891). A year later, after her mother's death, she moved to Manaus with his brother, teaching at the Instituto Benjamin Constant for boys.

On October 18, 1908, Emília Freitas died in Manaus, where she had returned after the death of her husband.

Works 1891- Canções do lar, poems; 1899 - A Rainha do Ignoto, novel unknown- O Renegado, novel