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During the second half of the century, possibly around 1555, she published the work Ditos da Freira - Ditos Diversos Feitos por uma Freira da Terceira Regra, Nos Quais se Contêm Sentenças Mui Notáveis e Avisos Necessários, (Sayings of the Nun - Various Sayings Made by a Nun of the Third Rule, which contain Very Notable Sentences and Necessary Notices), copies of which have survived to the ...
Florbela Espanca in 1910. Born Flor Bela d'Alma da Conceição on 8 December 1894 in Vila Viçosa, Portugal, Espanca was the daughter of Antónia da Conceição Lobo who worked as a housemaid for Espanca's father, João Maria Espanca, a photographer and businessman. [1]
[2] [3] He had succeeded to the Portuguese throne with the assassination of his father, Carlos I of Portugal, and older brother, Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza, on 1 February 1908. He had been deposed by the 5 October 1910 revolution, resulting in the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. The bride was twenty-three years-old and the ...
Head house-maid: the senior house maid, reporting to the housekeeper. (Also called "house parlour maid" in an establishment with only one or two upstairs maids). Parlour maid: they cleaned and tidied reception rooms and living areas by morning, and often served refreshments at afternoon tea, and sometimes also dinner. They tidied studies and ...
Here’s what it costs to buy a house in Portugal’s 30 largest cities: Lisbon: 1,096,000. Porto: 704,000. Vila Nova de Gaia: 452,000. Amadora: 530,000
Denis of Portugal (Portuguese: 'Dinis' or 'Diniz' ), occasionally surnamed Castro [2] (1353 – c. 1403), was an infante of Portugal.He was the son of Portuguese King Peter I and a Galician noblewoman named Inês de Castro who had arrived in Portugal as a maid of princess Constance of Castile, recently married to Pedro I (Heir Prince at the time).
Mrs. Parkington is a 1944 drama film. [2] [3] It tells the story of a woman's life, told via flashbacks, from boarding house maid to society matron.The movie was adapted by Polly James and Robert Thoeren from the novel by Louis Bromfield.
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