Henriqueta ou Uma heroína do século XIX
(Henriqueta or A nineteenth-century heroine) Book not yet available in English
Summary:
This is the true story of Henriqueta Emília da Conceição, a woman from Porto, a daring prostitute and gang leader who reached the status of a popular myth, and it is also the story of her great love: Etelvina.
Edited by: Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva
Comment:
Study and re-edition. Fascinated by the figure of the hermaphrodite Henriqueta, the journalist Duarte Júnior wrote one of the first Gothic novels in Portuguese literature in 1877, based on this mythical figure of Porto crime and his lover. Maria João Medeiros has rescued this disturbing story, an essential work in the panorama of gender studies in Portugal.