Guerra Junqueiro

Ana Maria Guerra bore Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro to José António Junqueiro Júnior, a supply trader and farmer. Ana died when Abilio was only three years old.

He made secondary studies in Bragança and at sixteen, he enrolled at the University of Coimbra, to study theology. Two years later, he left to study law, that he concluded in 1873. Then he became secretary of the governor of Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, and later of Viana do Castelo. In 1878, he was elected to the House of Representatives.

In 1885, he at Porto published A velhice do Padre Eterno , which generated strong criticism from Portuguese Catholic Church. After the British Ultimatum and the political crisis associated, he was involved in the political debate in 1891, writing some best-sellers that had huge impact in public opinion, contributing to the discredit of the Portuguese monarchy and the success of the republican Party in the 1910 Portuguese Revolution. He translated into Portuguese short stories by Hans Christian Andersen.

He married Filomena Augusta da Silva Neves on February 10, 1880, the couple had two children; Maria Isabel Guerra Junqueiro on November 11, 1880, second wife without issue of Luís Augusto de Sales Pinto da Mesquita de Carvalho (1868-1931) and Júlia Guerra Junqueiro in 1881, unmarried and without issue. He died in Lisbon at the age of 73.

In 1940 Junqueiro's daughter donated his estate in Porto that became the Guerra Junqueiro's Museum.