Teresa Wilms Montt

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Teresa Wilms Montt
Teresa Wilms Montt
Born
María Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt

(1893-09-08)8 September 1893
Viña del Mar, Chile
Died24 December 1921(1921-12-24) (aged 28)
Paris, France
NationalityChilean
Other namesTebal, Teresa de la Cruz
OccupationWriter
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Wilms and the second or maternal family name is Montt.
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María Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt (8 September 1893 – 24 December 1921; pseudonyms Tebal and Teresa de la Cruz), also known as Thérèse Wilms Montt, was a Chilean writer, poet, and

Ramón Valle-Inclán
.

Biography

A scion of the Montt family, she was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, to Luz Victoria Montt y Montt and Federico Guillermo Wilms y Brieba. She was the couple's second daughter, and she had seven sisters. Educated by governesses and private tutors,[2] she married Gustavo Balmaceda Valdés at the age of 17, against the will of her family. They had two children, Elisa "Chita" (1911) and Sylvia Luz (1913).[3]

In Santiago, she joined the city's active cultural life.

Between 1912 and 1915, they resided in Iquique because of her husband's work.[4] It was here that she began her relationship with feminists, trade unionists, and even Masons,[5] and became associated with nascent reformist movements. She used the pseudonym Tebal when she was first published in the Iquique newspaper.[6] After her husband returned to Santiago he discovered the affair which Wilms Montt had with his cousin, Vicente Zañartu Balmaceda. Because of it, the men of the Balmaceda Valdés family held a 'family court' in 1915, and decided Wilms Montt's punishment would be to spend time at the Convento de la Preciosa Sangre.[7] Here, she kept a diary and, depressed, made her first suicide attempt on March 29, 1916.[3]

In June 1916,

Ramón Valle-Inclán. In Madrid, using the pseudonym Teresa de la Cruz, she published "En la Quietud del Mármol" and "Anuarí".[10][11] Her travels took her to London and Paris, but she resided in Madrid. She was reunited with her daughters in Paris in 1920 after 5 years of separation through the efforts of her father, who was on a diplomatic mission.[3] However, the pain of separating from them again when they returned to Chile led to a terrible depression.[3]

She committed suicide at the Hotel Laenaec in

Veronal at the age of 28 years.[12] She is buried in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.[13]

Her life is remembered in the 2009 film Teresa: Crucificada por amar by director Tatiana Gaviola.[3][14]

Published works

  • Inquietudes sentimentales, Buenos Aires, 1917,
    ISBN 9798666236161
  • Los tres cantos, Buenos Aires, 1917
  • En la quietud del mármol, Casa Ed. Blanco, Madrid, 1918; translated as In the Stillness of Marble, Snuggly Books, 2019
  • Anuarí, Casa Ed. Blanco, Madrid, 1919
  • Cuentos para hombres que son todavía niños, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1919
  • Lo que no se ha dicho, antología,
    ISBN 978-956-317-245-4
  • Obras completas, compilada por Ruth González-Vergara, Editorial Grijalbo, Barcelona, 1994

Gallery

  • Teresa Wilms Montt.
    Teresa Wilms Montt.
  • Teresa Wilms Montt (1914).
    Teresa Wilms Montt (1914).
  • Portrait of Teresa Wilms Montt, by Julio Romero de Torres.
    Portrait of Teresa Wilms Montt, by Julio Romero de Torres.
  • Portrait of Teresa Wilms Montt.
    Portrait of Teresa Wilms Montt.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-7864-8918-3. Archived
    from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  2. ISBN 978-956-260-392-8. Archived
    from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Narran la Historia de la Escritora Teresa Wilms Montt". Chile.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  4. ISBN 978-956-11-1707-5. Archived
    from the original on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  5. ISBN 978-956-347-127-4. Archived
    from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  6. ISBN 978-956-282-942-7. Archived
    from the original on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  7. ^ May, Catalina (21 June 2009). "La encantadora aristócrata que se pasó a su clase por la raja". The Clinic. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  8. ISBN 9789562580298. Archived
    from the original on 15 February 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  9. ^ Garlitz, Virginia Milner. "The Last Muse of the Marqués de Bradomín ?". elpasajero.com. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  10. ^ "También para ellos" (PDF). letrasdechile.cl (in Spanish). p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Cuentos para los hombres que son todavía niños [microform] (1919)". Bs. Aires : Otero & Co. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  12. ISBN 978-956-7590-46-9. Archived
    from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  13. ^ http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/colecciones/BND/00/RC/RC0021110.pdf - Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
  14. ^ "Teresa: Crucificada por amar". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2014.

External links

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