María Josefa García Granados

María Josefa García Granados y Zavala was born on 10 July 1796 in El Puerto de Santa María, near Cádiz, and arrived around 1810 in Guatemala, where her father had been appointed. Sister of a future president of the country and mother of six children, she attended, even before independence, the political gatherings held at the house of a canon. She taught singing and guitar to José Batres Montúfar, wrote with him a satirical sermon that caused a scandal, published a mocking bulletin for years during the cholera epidemic and translated a few lines of Byron. She signed her texts with a masculine pseudonym and died in 1848.

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• PoetryHimno a la LunaMaría Josefa García Granados · 1830not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain