Ceará Women and The Way of Making Literature [Sector Rare Books]

Novel published in 1899. It deals with the story of a confraternity of women, led by Funesta, considered as witch, goddess, fairy to the people who inhabit the city.

She creates a secret society on Fog Island together with other women to fight inequality and injustice in a patriarchal society.

The young doctor Dr. Edmund becomes curious and discovers the mysteries of the secret society on the island and the enchanted woman.


Emília de Freitas mixes in her novel aspects of the Gothic novel, naturalism, folklore, legends, and the judeo-christian universe.

Published in 1902 the novel A Divorciada, whose theme caused a stir in the society of the time. The narrative is composed of thirty seven chapters that revolve around Nazaré’s marriage to her cousin Artur Pedrosa, a man addicted to gambling and drinking.

His terrible character is aggravated when he steals and then decides to run away with Gloria, Nazaré’s cousin. Therefore, the idea of divorce arises at the urging of her father, Coronel Pedrosa, however, the protagonist has problems accepting it due to her christian values.

The work A Divorciada raises important discussions about a woman’s role, the family space, the christian values, and female stereotypes, bringing to light the power of the patriarchy. 

Novel of mores published in 1938, also written under the pseudonym Nitio-Abá and in the form of pamphlets, with love as its theme.

The narrative tells the love story between two cousins, Ednir and Odar, whose setting is the city of Fortaleza at the end of the 19th century.

Ana Facó used the pseudonym of Nitio-Abá, which in Tupi-Guarani language means “nobody”, to write Rapto Jocoso, novel brought to the public through pamphlets in the newspaper named Jornal do Ceará from 1906-1907 and then published posthumously in 1937, containing 25 chapters.

The narrative was built in a linear form and deals with a traditional family from the interior of the state, highlighting the female activities, the popular culture and the love affair of Velho Antônio with the young Dumamira, who loved her cousin Reinaldo, but due to social and economical conveniences, accepted to marry Antônio.

The time of the narrative takes place in the second half of the 19th century.