Violante Atabalipa Ximenes de Bivar e Vellasco (December 1, 1817 – May 25, 1875) was a Brazilian feminist, writer and newspaper owner.
[1] As a young child, she was provided a good education and lived with her mother and grandfather while her father was in Rio de Janeiro.
[3] Vellasco served as the editor and patron of O Jornal das Senhoras, a feminist magazine created in 1852 and first edited by Joana Paula Manso de Noronha.
[5] Another editor of the journal, with Vellasco, was Gervasia Nunenzia Pires dos Santos.
[11][12] Vellasco was a member of the Imperial Council in Brazil and the founder and director of the Brazilian Dramatic Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro.