Emília Pomar de Sousa Machado
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1 July 1857
Emília Pomar de Sousa Machado | |
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| Born | Emília Adelaide Pomar 1 July 1857 Cacilhas, Almada, Portugal |
| Died | 15 November 1944 (aged 87) Cacilhas |
| Occupation(s) | Writer; poet |
| Known for | Spiritualism |
Emília Pomar de Sousa Machado (1857– 1944) was a Portuguese writer and poet who belonged to the Spiritualism movement. She was the great-aunt of the noted painter Júlio Pomar.
Sousa Machado was born on 1 July 1857, in the parish of Cacilhas, in the Almada municipality of Portugal, situated on the left bank of the Tejo river, south of the capital, Lisbon. She was baptised as Emília Adelaide Pomar, the daughter of Francisco José Pomar, a Galician merchant who had settled in Almada and owned one of the largest olive and olive oil businesses in the area, and Maria do Carmo. Emília was the only daughter of their four children. An opera lover, she attended the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon with her father from a young age. She was fluent in Italian, French, English, Spanish, and Latin, and played the piano.[1][2]
On 2 December 1876, she married José Severo de Sousa Machado (1854–1918), a native of Lisbon and a captain in the merchant navy. With him, she had a son, Francisco Pomar de Sousa Machado (1877–1940), a partner of the Cacilhas River Company, which operated the Tagus crossing.[1][2]
