Brazil has not yet produced any woman who has se-
cured the recognition accorded to Sor Juana Ines de la
Cruz or to Gomez de Avellaneda; it has, however, added
some significant names to the Ibero-American roster.
To poetry it has given Narcisa Amalia, Adelina Vieira,
Julia Lopes d' Almeida, Zalina Rolim, and lastly Fran-



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cisca Julia da Silva. They are sisters in a choir that
boasts choristers in every nation of the Ibero-American
group, — now a civic spirit like the Dominican Salome
Urena, who belongs to the latter half of the nineteenth
century, now such a more passionate continuator as the
lady who writes in Puerto Rico under the pseudonym of
La Hija del Caribe (The Daughter of the Carribees),
— again the Sapphic abandon of Alfonsina Storni of Ar-
gentina, the domestic charm of Maria Enriqueta of Mex-
ico, the pallid perfection of the Uruguayan Juana
de Ibarbourou, the apostolic intensity of Gabriela
Mistral (Lucilla Godoy) of Chile, and the youthful
passion of Gilka Machado, youngest of the new Bra-
zilians.
These women do not, as a rule, and despite some too
broad assumptions in South America as to the exclusively
materialistic spirit of the United States, enjoy the advan-
tages of culture that are possessed by our lady poets.
