Maria da Felicidade do Couto Browne

Maria da Felicidade do Couto Browne (10 January 1797 – 8 or 9 November 1861) was a Portuguese woman poet.

Life Felicidade do Couto Browne was born in Porto, Portugal. She married Manuel Clamouse Browne, a wealthy port wine merchant of Irish and French descent. They had a daughter, Júlia, who married the Viscount of Vilarinho de São Romão Álvaro Ferreira Teixeira Carneiro de Vasconcelos Girão. Felicidade do Couto Browne died in Porto on either 8 or 9 November 1861. Felicidade do Couto Browne also established a literary salon for writers, which included Arnaldo Gama Luís de Magalhães, Ricardo Guimarães, and Camilo Castelo Branco.

Legacy Two streets have been named after her in Carnide, Lisbon, and in São Domingos de Rana, Cascais.

Works 1849 – Sóror Dolores 1854 – A Coruja Trovadora (The Troubadour Owl) 1854 – Virações da Madrugada (Breeze of Dawn) 1854 – Sonetos e Poesias Líricas (Sonnets and Lyrics)