Maria Lígia Valente da Fonseca Severino (May 21, 1906 – August 14, 1991)[1] was a Portuguese and Angolan feminist journalist and writer.
[1] Maria Valente da Fonseca was born in 1906 in Benguela, Angola, to an Angolan mother and European father.
[3] She moved to Portugal when she was very young and studied at the Liceu Infanta D. Maria in Coimbra and the Escola Carolina Michäelis in Porto.
[1] She was also involved in anti-war efforts, signing the Manifesto Pela Paz entre as Nações ("For Peace Among Nations").
[5] She also founded the Suplemento Literário Mãos de Fada: Revista de lavores femininos ("Fairy Hands Literary Supplement: Magazine of Women's Labor") and worked on the feminist magazine Os Nossos Filhos ("Our Children"), which offered an alternative educational curriculum in opposition to the Estado Novo regime's.