Helena Morley

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.