[2][3] Vitorino was an early employee of the Emissora Nacional, the country's public broadcaster, where she directed various radio plays.

[1] In 1929, Vitorino was honored as an Officer in the Ordem Militar de Cristo, and in 1930 she was named a Dame of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.

[1] Vitorino never married, and her "personal refusal of any heterosexual engagement" has led some scholars to assess her long-term companionships with fellow women Virgínia Ferreira and Olga Sarmento as covert lesbian partnerships.

[3][4] The scholar Jorge Pereira de Sampaio has labeled her "one of the most influential women in Portuguese literature in the first half of the 20th century.

"[2] In the Antologia da Poesia Feminina Portuguesa (1972), the writer António Salvado [pt] said that Vitorino wrote "some of the most interesting sonnets of Portuguese love poetry.