After a bohemian life in Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto, during which he spent time with a number of literary figures, Teixeira Gomes undertook many journeys abroad in the service of his father’s export company.
From 1895 onwards, he made new literary contacts and published a number of works including ‘Gente Singular’.
Teixeira Gomes’s career as a politician included the positions of Minister in London and President of the Portuguese Republic.
He subsequently embarked on a further period of foreign travel, and spent the last ten years of his life in Algeria, where he died in 1941.
