Branca de Gonta Colaço

Branca Eva de Gonta Syder Ribeiro Colaço, better known as Branca de Gonta Colaço, was a Portuguese writer, scholar and linguist. She was the daughter of Charlotte Ann Syder, a British poet, and the Portuguese politician and writer Tomás Ribeiro. She married Jorge Rey Colaço, a renowned ceramist and was the mother of the sculptor, Ana de Gonta Colaço.