Ana Plácido, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Portuguese writer
Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1831
Place of Birth: Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Date of Death: 20-Sep-1895
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Ana Plácido
- Ana Plácido (1831—1895) was a Portuguese novelist and author.
- Her best known work is the 1871 novel Herança de Lágrimas (English: A Legacy of Tears), and she is also noted for an autobiographical book Luz Coada por Ferros (English: Light Filtered Through Bars; published in 1863).
- She was married to the author Camilo Castelo Branco, with whom she earlier had an extra-marital affair while he was married.Herança de Lágrimas tells the story of a married woman named Diana who decides not to engage in adultery after reading the story of her mother's fate after doing similarly.
- The novel was written to try and "voice a female-centred perspective on life" according to the academics Hilary Owen and Cláudio Pazos Alonso.
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