# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lutgarda-guimaraes-de-caires
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:00:49.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lutgarda-guimaraes-de-caires"
name: "Lutgarda Guimarães de Caires"
slug: "lutgarda-guimaraes-de-caires"
description: "Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires, also Lutgarda and Luthegarda, (1858–1935) was a Portuguese women's rights activist and poet. She is remembered for starting the Portuguese tradition of bringing gifts of clothes, toys and sweets to children in hospital at Christmas. She fought successfully to have conditions for female prisoners significantly improved. In addition to her award-winning poetry, Lutgarda de Caires published articles in the press calling for equal opportunities for women and improvements to their property rights."
tagline: "Portuguese writer, poet, suffragist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D._Luthgarda_de_Caires_-_Brasil-Portugal_(16Jul1913).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Portugal"
  isoCode: "PT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1858-11-17"
deathDate: "1935-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.97
  momentum:             12.22448979591837
  historical:           6.80396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "لوتجاردا غيمارايس دي كايرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutgarda_Guimar%C3%A3es_de_Caires"
    title: "Lutgarda Guimarães de Caires"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutegarda_Guimar%C3%A3es_de_Caires"
    title: "Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutegarda_Guimar%C3%A3es_de_Caires"
    title: "Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutegarda_Guimar%C3%A3es_de_Caires"
    title: "Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutegarda_Guimar%C3%A3es_na_Alkahira"
    title: "Lutegarda Guimarães na Alkahira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutegarda_Guimar%C3%A3es_de_Caires"
    title: "Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10321084"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump