The Liga das Mulheres Republicanas (English: Republican Women's League) was a Portuguese feminist organisation founded in 1909 by Ana de Castro Osório and Adelaide Cabete. It split in 1912 after the refusal of the government to pass a law enabling women to vote. Cabete subsequently started the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas."Women Writers up to 1974" by Hilary Owen and Cláudio Pazos Alonso, chapter 14, p. 169, in A Companion to Portuguese Literature (eds. Stephen Parkinson, Cláudio Pazos Alonso and T.F. Earle), Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: Tamesis,
Prominent members
Adelaide Cabete, founding member; Adelaide Cunha Barradas; Adelina da Glória Paletti Berger, president of the Lagos nucleus; Alice Moderno; Antónia de Jesus da Silva; Alzira Augusta de Lourdes Pinto Vieira; Amélia França Borges; Ana Augusta de Castilho; Ana de Castro Osório, founding member and first president of LRMP (1908-1911); Ana Maria Gonçalves Dias; Angélica Lopes Viana Porto; Bárbara Rosa de Carvalho Pereira; Beatriz Pinheiro de Lemos; Camila Sousa Lopes; Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, founding member and first woman to vote in Portugal; Domitila de Carvalho; Ernestina Pereira Santos; Elzira Dantas Machado, first lady of the Portuguese Republic; Fausta Pinto da Gama; Filipa de Oliveira; Filomena Honorina da Costa; Joana de Almeida Nogueira; Judite Pontes Rodrigues; Lénia Loyo Pequito; Lídia de Oliveira; Luísa de Almeida; Manuela Porto; Maria Benedita Mouzinho de Albuquerque Pinho; Maria Clara Correia Alves; Maria Evelina de Sousa; Maria Veleda, second president of LRMP (1911-1919); Mariana da Assunção da Silva; Rita Dantas Machado, daughter of Bernardino Machado, third and eight president of the Portuguese Republic, and of Elzira Dantas Machado; Sofia Quintino; Virgínia da Fonseca; Virgínia Quaresma.
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