title: Adelina Lopes Vieira
text: # Adelina Lopes Vieira
  
  Adelina Amélia Lopes Vieira (1850 - 1922 or 1933) was a Brazilian poet, playwright and children's writer.
  
  ## Life
  
  Born in Lisbon, she came to Brazil as a young child, and graduated as a teacher around 1870. Contos Infantis (1886) was written with her sister Julia Lopes de Almeida. In 1899 she contributed to A Mensageira, a literary magazine edited by Presciliana Duarte de Almeida which was aimed at Brazilian women. At the start of the twentieth century she wrote and translated several plays.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Saudade de palmeiras e No echo das damas, 1879
  * Margaritas, 1879
  * (with Julia Lopes de Almeida) Contos Infantis [Children's Tales], 1886.
  * Destinos, 1890
  * A viagem de Murilo
  * As duas doses
  * Expiação
  * (trans.) A terrina by Ernest d’Hervilly, 1907
  