Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, pseudonym of Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto, was a Brazilian educator, translator, writer, poet and feminist. She is considered the first Brazilian feminist and possibly the first still in the 19th. century to break through public-private boundaries by publishing her works in newspapers, when the local press was just beginning. She also coordinated a girls' school in Rio de Janeiro and wrote a book in defense of the rights of women, Native Americans and slaves. Her first book, and the first in Brazil to deal with women's intellectual equality and their capacity and right to be educated and participate in society on an eq...
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