page_title: Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Português: A igreja de Nossa Senhora das Mercês em Diamantina está localizada à Rua das Mercês, Centro histórico de Diamantina. Ao abandonar a Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos homens pretos foi criada a Irmandade de Nossa Senhora das Mercês. Em São João Del Rei há também uma igreja de Nossa Senhora das Mercêz
context_page_description: Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant was a Brazilian juvenile writer. When she was a teenager, she kept a diary, which describes life in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil which was then published in 1942. The diary was published under a pen name Helena Morley. When it was originally published it was in portuguese under the title Minha Vida de Menina. The diary was then translated in to English by Elizabeth Bishop in 1957.
context_section_description: She was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil to an English father and a Brazilian mother. Her father worked as a diamond miner. The diary chronicles Brant's daily life, and covers her teenage years until 1895.
  In 1900 Brant married Augusto Mário Calderia Brant, they had five children together.  Brant says that she published her diaries in order to act as a role model for younger females who may read the book. She wrote that the diary was a way to show young women what becoming an adult means, and in this way she is acting like a grandmother to the reader.  One of her daughters, Ignez Caldeira Brant, married with Abgar Renault, Ministry of Education (Brazil) (1955-1956) e do Tribunal de Contas da União (1967-1973).
caption: Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Mercês, located in Diamantina, MG, Brazil. The building is in the historic region of the town.
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