Emília Moncorvo Bandeira de Melo

Emília Moncorvo Bandeira de Melo (1852–1910) was a Brazilian poet and play-writer who commonly wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Dolores. Other pseudonyms she used were Júlia de Castro, Leonel Sampaio, Célia Márcia, and Mário Villar. She was best known for publishing short stories, novels, plays, literacy criticism, and journalistic essays or crônicas.

Life Emília Moncorvo de Figueiredo was born on March 11, 1852, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Dr. Carlos Honório de Figueiredo and D. Emília Moncorvo de Figueiredo. Raised by a traditional upper-class family, she received an education and initially, began writing as a hobby. She married Dr. Jerónimo Bandeira de Melo and had four children, including Cecilia Bandeira de Melo, a prominent and successful writer in the 1920s.

Shortly after her husband death, she became a writer and frequently contributed to the newspapers O País and Correio da Manhã.

Publications Gradações, 1894-1986 (1897) Um drama na roça (1907) Ao esvaçar da idéia (1910) A Luta(1911) Brazilian Tales (1921) Almas complexas (1934) Crônicas 1905-1910 (1998)