Eleonora Amaral de Lemos

Eleonora Abílio de Lemos, better known as Mrs Lola, is the protagonist of the Brazilian soap opera "Éramos Seis" ("We were Six"), broadcasted by Rede Globo in 2019. 
It is based on a book of the same name written by the Brazilian writer Maria José Dupré in 1943, from which four other adaptations came before it: with Gessy Fonseca in 1958, with Cleyde Yáconis in 1967, with Nicette Bruno in 1977, and with Irene Ravache in 1994.
A struggling and optimistic housewife who, despite all the suffering she is subjected to, never loses the joy and strength of life.
She was portrayed by , who also interpreted Ruth Araújo Assunção in Sand Woman (1993).
==Biography==
We were Six tells the story of a low middle class São Paulo family, led by Dona Lola, wife of Júlio Abílio de Lemos, and their four children: Carlos, Alfredo, Julinho and Isabel. The work covers a period of twenty-eight years, starting in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War (mentioned even by the character Tia Emília), and ending in 1942, during the Second World War, at the end of the Estado Novo.
The period of great social and behavioral changes in São Paulo society serves as a backdrop for the novel and, sometimes, such changes directly influence the actions of the characters.
Events such as the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1924 Paulista Revolution, and the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution are experienced by the Lemos family under the eyes of Dona Lola. In the final chapter, we also talk briefly about the Second World War (through a letter from Alfredo).
Dona Lola's life is narrated since the childhood of the children, when Júlio works in a fabric store and they both sacrifice themselves to pay the installments of the house where they live, on Avenida Angélica, in São Paulo (near Parque Buenos Aires, in the place where the São Clemente Building was later built), including the arrival of children in adulthood and Dona Lola in old age.
When the story begins (in 1914), it is the first year that Dona Lola and her family reside at the house on Avenida Angélica; before, the couple had lived in a small rented house in the Bom Retiro neighborhood since the wedding.
In the final stretch of the book (already in 1934), Dona Lola sells the house on Angélica Avenue (where she lived for nineteen years) and moves to a smaller house that she rents in the Barra Funda neighborhood, along with Carlos, the last child who still remains. lives with his mother. The story leaps eight years into the final chapter, when Dona Lola already resides in a rented room in a nuns' pension.
At the beginning of the story, in late 1914, Isabel is three years old, Julinho is five, Alfredo is seven, and Carlos is nine. They study at Dona Benedita's private school.
Over the years, Dona Lola's life changes with the events: the death of Júlio from a stomach disease; Julinho's departure to work in Rio de Janeiro (and his subsequent social ascension when he married a girl from a high society family in Rio, Maria Laura); Alfredo's disappearance around the world, so as not to be arrested; Isabel's union with a separated man, Felício (who is not accepted by Lola due to the moral conventions of the time); and, finally, the unexpected death of Carlos, the firstborn and the son most devoted to his mother, also victimized by a stomach disease. Julio dies in 1926 and Carlos in 1934, which causes Lola's family to fall apart over an eight-year period.
==Trivia==
*The book told a much sadder and darker story than the TV adaptations. In it, Mrs Lola ends up alone abandoned in a ladies' asylum, Tia Emília dies before the 1932 Paulista Revolution and Lola does not receive a cent of her fortune.
*The 2019 version completely changed that. In it, Lola ends up in the asylum but is soon rescued by Afonso, where they get married and buy the house on Avenida Angelica, and Tia Emília becomes good in the end.
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