Carta à Rainha Louca

Isabel das Santas Virgens is held in a religious house for women, thought insane by many, and she writes to a monarch also called mad. She sets out the abuses of royal officers and those who wormed their way into power against the enslaved, the poor and women like herself and her mistress Blandina. Her letters, mixing colonial vocabulary with modern speech, expose how the colony worked and what happened to women who resisted it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

144 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, 18th century

First published

2019 by Alfaguara

Author's age

77 when first published

ISBN

9788556520821 (original)