Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (born March 23, 1814 in Santa María de Puerto Príncipe, today Camagüey , Cuba ; † February 1, 1873 in Madrid ) was a Cuban or Spanish poet , playwright and writer .
Gómez de Avellaneda, daughter of the Cuba fleet commander, lived alternately here and in Spain and in 1840 settled permanently in Madrid. From here she published numerous poems in Andalusian papers under the name “La Peregrina”, which were collected as Poesías líricas (1841). She also wrote a number of novels and short stories such as
- Sab (1841)
- Dos mugeres (1842)
- Espatolino (1844)
- La baronesa de Joux (1844)
- Dolores (1843)
Her stage debut took place in Madrid with the drama Leoncia (1840), which she initially followed up with the tragedies : Alfonso Munio (1844) and El príncipe de Viana (1844).
Married to Deputy Pedro Sabater in 1846, she became a widow after just a few months, after which she stayed away from public life for a long time. After she married Colonel and Deputy Domingo Verdugo y Massieu in 1855, she lost him through her death in 1860 and now retired to Madrid, where she died on February 1, 1873.
Among her later poems, which have a predominantly painful and somewhat gloomy character, without inferior to the earlier ones in terms of beauty and richness of thought, are the biblical dramas
- Saúl and Baltasar (1849),
- the song A la cruz (1850) and
- El último acento di mi arpa (1850)
as well as the second, richly increased edition of her Poesías líricas (1850, two volumes).
Later she turned almost exclusively and with great success to the theater and like most of her dramas (16 in total)
- Flavio Recaredo (1851)
- La verdad vence apariencias (1852)
- El donativo del diablo (1852)
- La aventurera (1853)
- La hija de las flores o Todos están locos (1852)
- Errores del corazón (1852)
among others have survived on the Spanish stage.
Their last publication was the Devocionario (1867) written in the monastery .
Web links
- Cuba Literaria, Portal de Literatura Cubana (Spanish)
- Centro Virtual Cervantes, works by and about Gómez de Avellaneda (Spanish)
- Literature by and about Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about Gertrudis Gómez de Avellanada in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gomez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Avellaneda y Arteaga, Gertrudis Gómez de; Arteaga, Gertrudis; Gómez de Avellaneda y Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez de; Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis; La Peregrina; La Avellaneda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish and Cuban writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camaguey , Cuba |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1873 |
| Place of death | Madrid |