Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda was born on 23 March 1814 in Puerto Príncipe, today Camagüey, to a Spanish naval officer father and a Creole mother. In 1836 she left with her family for Spain, where she wrote La Peregrina and staged some twenty plays. In 1853 the Spanish Royal Academy refused her a seat because she was a woman. Twice widowed, she returned to Cuba from 1859 to 1863, then died in Madrid on 1 February 1873.

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