Pen name Helena Morley Name Alice Caldeira Occupation Writer Role Writer | Nationality Brazil Movies Vida de Menina Period 1893-1895 | |
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Born Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant
August 28, 1880
Diamantina - Minas Gerais ( 1880-08-28 ) Died June 20, 1970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Spouse Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant (m. 1900) Books The diary of "Helena Morley" Similar People Helena Solberg, Elizabeth Bishop, Ludmila Dayer, Elena Soarez, Marianne Moore | ||
Minha vida de menina de Helena Morley - Parte 1
Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (August 28, 1880 – June 20, 1970) was a Brazilian juvenile writer.
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Biography
She was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil to an English father and a Brazilian mother. In 1893, at the age of 12, Alice began a diary, an astute, and often amusing, chronicle of daily happenings among her family, servants, and the small mining town, Diamantina. The published diary ends in 1895. As an adult, Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant, by then a social figure in Rio de Janeiro, was married to the writer and also a president of the Banco do Brasil ("Bank of Brazil"), who in 1942 encourage her to publish the diary that appeared as Minha vida de menina under the pseudonym Helena Morley. French Novelist Georges Bernanos admired it, and in the 1950s the American poet, Elizabeth Bishop, then resident in Brazil, translated it into English as The Diary of Helena Morley.
The book was adapted to film in 2004 by Helena Solberg as Vida de Menina.