Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938)[note 1] was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country.[4][5]
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| Born | Domitila García Doménico 7 May 1847 Camagüey, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire |
| Died | 1938 (aged 90–91) Havana, Republic of Cuba |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Genre | Essay |
| Notable work | Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas.[1] |
| Spouse | Tomás Coronado |
Biography
editDomitila García Doménico de Coronado was born on 7 May 1847 in Camagüey, Cuba.
On 17 May 1891, she founded the Academy of Women Typographers.[6] She founded and edited various publications, including the journals La Antorcha and El Céfiro together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901).[7] Besides these, she was editor of La Mujer, together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and Isabel Margarita Ordetx.[8]
She also published the first anthology of Cuban women writers in 1868, titled Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas (Poetic photo album of Cuban women writers), which included the biography of Emelina Peyrellade Zaldívar, a 19th-century writer and translator and of Brígida Agüero y Agüero (1837–1866), a 19th-century poet from Camagüey.[1][9]
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Campuzano, Luisa (2004). Las Muchachas de La Habana No Tienen Temor de Dios...: Escritoras Cubanas (S. XVIII-XXI) [The Girls of Havana Have No Fear of God...: Cuban Women Writers (18th–21st Century)] (in Spanish). Ediciones Unión. p. 223. ISBN 978-959-209-605-9.
- ^ Schmidt, Aileen (2003). Mujeres excéntricas: la escritura autobiográfica femenina en Puerto Rico y Cuba [Eccentric women: women's autobiographical writing in Puerto Rico and Cuba] (in Spanish). Ediciones Callejón. p. 192. ISBN 978-188-174-812-0.
- ^ Barcia, María del Carmen; Carr Parúas, Fernando; Leyva Collazo, Yahima; Ibarra, Jorge (2009). Mujeres al margen de la historia [Women on the margin of history] (in Spanish). Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. p. 251. ISBN 978-959-061-224-4.
- ^ Marrero, Juan (1999). Dos siglos de Periodismo en Cuba: Momentos, Hechos y Rostros [Two Centuries of Journalism in Cuba: Moments, Facts and Faces] (in Spanish). Pablo de la Torriente Editorial. p. 147. ISBN 978-959-259-031-1.
- ^ Guerra, Ramiro (1952). Historia de la Nación Cubana, Tomo VII [History of the Cuban Nation, Volume 7] (in Spanish). Editorial Historia de la Nación Cubana.
- ^ Asociación de Reporters de La Habana (1952). Album del cincuentenario de la Asociación de Reporters de La Habana 1902–1952 [Album of the 50th anniversary of the Havana Reporters' Association 1902–1952] (in Spanish). Havana Reporters' Association. p. 440.
- ^ Cámara, Madeline (2002). La Letra Rebelde: Estudios de Excritoras Cubanas [Rebel Letter: Studies of Cuban Women Writers] (in Spanish). Ediciones Universal. p. 155. ISBN 978-089-729-984-8.
- ^ "Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana" [Dictionary of Cuban Literature] (in Spanish). Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ Coronado, Domitila García de (1868). Album poético-fotográfico de las escritoras cubanas (in Spanish). Viuda e hs. de Soler.
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