Domitila García de Coronado

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Domitila García de Coronado
BornDomitila García Doménico
(1847-05-07)7 May 1847
Camagüey, Cuba
Died1938 (aged 90–91)
Havana, Cuba
Occupation
  • Writer
  • Journalist
  • Professor
LanguageSpanish
NationalityCuban
GenreEssay
Notable workÁlbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas.[1]
SpouseTomás Coronado

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]

Biography

Domitila 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

  1. ^ Some authors list her year of death as 1937.[2][3]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-959-209-605-9
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  2. ISBN 978-188-174-812-0
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  3. ISBN 978-959-061-224-4
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  4. ISBN 978-959-259-031-1
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  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ISBN 978-089-729-984-8
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  8. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Archived from the original
    on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  9. ^ Coronado, Domitila García de (1868). Album poético-fotográfico de las escritoras cubanas (in Spanish). Viuda e hs. de Soler.


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