organizations including the Feminist Propaganda Association, the Republican League of Portuguese Women and the Women's Democratic Propaganda Association. In August 1912, while on a visit in Lisbon, de Sousa and Moderno were honored by the Republican League for their efforts in being the primary agitators for women's rights and education in the Azores. Beginning in 1915, de Sousa worked on the editorial staff of Folha, a journal which had been founded by Moderno in 1902. She also wrote as a correspondent for the paper Correio dos Açores, publishing poetry and editorials. She retired from teaching on the 13 July 1940, from the Escola Agostinho Machado Bicudo Correia. Throughout the 1940s, she and her partner Moderno, who typically dressed in men's clothing (including hat, tie and walking cane) and smoked cigars, were seen walking their dog around Ponta Delgada. Death and legacy De Sousa died on the 12 February 1946 and was buried the following day in the Cemetery of São Joaquim. Moderno lived only eight days after de Sousa's death, dying on 20 February 1946. After the couple's death, biographers attempted to erase the couple's lesbian past and the oppressive political climate that had existed. In 2013, the Ponta Delgada Municipal Assembly passed a decree to add de Sousa's name to the identifying plate on the crypt Moderno had built for their remains. In 2017, she was posthumously honored by the government with the Azorean Insignia of Recognition. References Citations Bibliography 1879 births 1946 deaths 20th-century journalists 20th-century Portuguese women writers 20th-century Portuguese writers Lesbian writers People from Ponta Delgada Portuguese educators Portuguese feminists 20th-century Portuguese educators Portuguese suffragists