Francisca de Assis Martins Wood

Francisca de Assis Martins Wood or Francisca Wood (1802–1900) was a Portuguese writer and editor. Her four-page A Voz Feminina caused international comment with its advocacy of increased women's rights and O Progresso was said to be the first feminist newspaper in Europe.

Life Wood was born in Lisbon in 1802 and she spent over twenty years in Britain.

She married and returned to Portugal where she and her husband created two titles. and the Victoria Magazine. A much later source cites O Progresso as the first feminist newspaper in Europe.

Her first publication carried the strap line, ("the free woman beside the free man") whilst the second wanted "Justice at any cost".

Wood was one of the first women in Portugal who was concerned with women's subordinate status and in particular about improving the educational opportunities for women in Portugal together with Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, Alice Pestana, Alice Moderno, Angelina Vidal, Antónia Pusich and Guiomar Torrezão. She realised that many women in Portugal were not interested in equality but she blamed their lack of ambition on the unavailability of education to women.