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This research is situated in the field of the History of Education and focuses on the life of Henriqueta Galeno (1887-1964), an educator who worked in the patriarchal scenario of the first half of the 20th century, standing out for her dedication to literature and feminism. The aim was to biographize her with an emphasis on her training and educational practices. It used documentary research to collect primary sources - newspapers Diário Carioca (1931 to 1936), Jornal do Recife (1931); Diário Oficial do Estado do Ceará (1914); as well as compendiums produced by the biographer - Henriqueta at the Feminist Congress, At the Carioca Academy of Letters and At the Cearense Center (1932), a posthumous work entitled Admirable Women (1965) and photographs from the Juvenal Galeno House Archive, were also considered as sources. The analysis was theoretically based on Loriga (2011), Machado (2010), Perrot (1988), Telles (2013), Ponte (2001), Freyre (2004) and Borges (2006), among others. It was found that Henriqueta Galeno was a lawyer who worked as an educator, was the first teacher at the Liceu do Ceará as well as inspector of Secondary Education in the first half of the 20th century.