TY - BOOK AU - Helena Morley AU - Elizabeth Bishop TI - DIARY OF HELENA MORLEY SN - 0860682005 U1 - 981.050924 PY - 1981/// CY - London PB - Virago Press KW - History & geography  KW - South America  KW - Brazil N1 - In 1952, soon after her arrival in Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop asked her new Brazilian friends which of their country's books she should read. They recommended Minha Vida de Menina - a diary kept by a young girl who lived in a mining town at the end of the nineteenth century. As a labor of love, Elizabeth Bishop devoted three years to translating the diary, a delightful account of a young girl's life in Brazil ER -