Her four-page A Voz Feminina caused international comment with its advocacy of increased women's rights and O Progresso was said to be the first feminist newspaper in Europe.
[1] Wood is remembered for editing the weekly periodical, A Voz Feminina, for two years.
[2] The four page periodical called for women's suffrage in Portugal caused consternation in conservative England as it reacted to the petition raised by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and presented by John Stuart Mill to the British Parliament in 1866.
The periodical was presented as a "‘a hermaphrodite paper" creating comment in the Atheneum, the Bern Journal[3] and the Victoria Magazine.
[1] Her first publication carried the strap line, a mulher livre ao lado do homem livre ("the free woman beside the free man")[3] whilst the second wanted "Justice at any cost".