For information about authorship and publication of the letters, see "Letters of a Portuguese Nun".
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Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun (comprising five letters).
In 2006 she published the non-fiction work Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love.
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In her recent book Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love (2006), the author Myriam Cyr has attempted to reassert the attribution of the letters to the real Mariana Alcoforado.