María Josefa Mujía

María Josefa Mujía was born in Sucre in 1812, or in 1820 according to other sources, and lost her sight at the age of fourteen, shortly after her father's death. Her brother Augusto read to her and wrote down the verses she composed as she dictated them. She spent her life in her city, where critics count her among the initiators of the Romantic poetry of Chuquisaca; her manner is melodic and melancholy, and the night of the blind is its constant motif. She died in Sucre on 30 July 1888.

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• PoetryLa ciegaMaría Josefa Mujía · 1850not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain