Emília de Sousa Costa (1877 - 1959) was a teacher who promoted female education, a writer of novels for both adults and children and a feminist.

However, there has recently been a re-evaluation of her written work, notably by Maria Regina Tavares da Silva [4] and Carlos Nogueira.

[5] Sousa Costa is generally considered to have represented a form of "moderate feminism", unlike the more radical approach of other earlier feminists such as the writer Ana de Castro Osório and the gynaecologist Adelaide Cabete.

In 1925, she published her only travel diary, entitled Como eu vi o Brasil (As I saw Brazil), based on a trip made to that country in 1923.

[1][6] In her last years, Sousa Costa and her husband lived in the house in Porto known as the Conventinho de Contumil, where she died on 6 July 1959.