Born in Funchal to a wealthy family of the Madeiran bourgeoisie, her parents were João Ferreira Cabral and his wife Virgínia Maria Mendes.

[1] She married her first husband, her cousin Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo Júnior, in Lisbon on 21 July 1911.

[2] On 28 February 1934 she married her second husband, the Portuguese Navy officer and painter, Álvaro Navarro Hogan (1879–1950), who was of Irish descent.

[4] She corresponded with the poet and writer Alfredo Pimenta, discussing topics such as "the division of religion Christian faith in the different established dogmas ".

In the January/February 1943 edition of the Portuguese magazine Estudos Psíquicos, a tribute to her said: "She had an unmistakable distinction where not the slightest artifice was discovered.