Virginie Sampeur
Marie Angelique Virginie Sampeur (1839-1919) was a Haitian educator and poet. She is "credited with being the first Haitian woman writer".[1]
Sampeur's poems were published in Haitian literary journals, La Ronde (1898-1902) and Haiti Littéraire et Scientifique (1912-13).[1]
Sampeur married and divorced the poet Oswald Durand. By a later marriage, she was the mother of the classical musician Ludovic Lamothe.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Brenda F. Berrian; Aart G. Broek (1989). Bibliography of Women Writers from the Caribbean: 1831-1986. Three Continents Press. p. x. ISBN 978-0-89410-600-2.
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