[4] Perym writes that she spent time in the court of Philip IV of Spain in Madrid as a handmaiden to the king's wife Elisabeth of Bourbon.

[6] [7] Recent research[8] has corroborated Barbosa Machado's version, showing on the basis of documents retrieved from Portuguese archives that Ângela de Azevedo was indeed born in the second half of the 17th Century, probably around year 1665,[9] in Paredes da Beira,[10] Portugal, daughter of Tomé de Azevedo, governor of the Castle Fortress of Almeida, and his wife Maria de Almeida.

[13][14]She moved with her husband to nearby Soutelo do Douro,[15] where she mostly spent the rest of her life and where she would die, sometime before 1723.

Her play "El muerto disimulado (Presumed Dead)" has been recently re-edited, with a translation into English;[19] in this work Ângela de Azevedo "posits a feminist discourse by constructing a protagonist, Jacinta, who breaks with the traditional female role of passive object to take control of narrative and emplotment as the speaking subject.

"[20] Ângela de Azevedo is one of six known female playwrights of seventeenth century Spain.