Maria Angélica Ribeiro
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Maria Angélica de Sousa Rego, known as Maria Angélica Ribeiro (5 December 18299 April 1880) was a Brazilian playwright. She was the first Brazilian woman to have a play staged in Brazilian theater. She was the daughter of Maria Leopoldina de Sousa Rego and Marcelino de Sousa Rego. At the age of 14, she married her drawing teacher, João Caetano Ribeiro. She wrote about twenty plays.


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19th-century Brazilian dramatists and playwrights 1829 births 1880 deaths 19th-century Brazilian women writers Brazilian women dramatists and playwrights People from Angra dos Reis People from Paraty {{Brazil-writer-stub