Agripina Samper Agudelo Explained

Agripina Samper Agudelo
Pseudonym:Pía Rigán
Birth Name:Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo
Birth Date:4 March 1833
Birth Place:Honda, Cundinamarca,
New Granada
Death Place:Paris, France
Language:Spanish
Nationality:Colombian
Period:1853—1892
Genre:Poetry
Movement:Costumbrismo
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Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo[1] (4 March 1833 — 22 April 1892)[2] was a Colombian poet. Having a literary family, she received an education not easily accessible to women of her time and country. She wrote prose and poetry under the pseudonym "Pía-Rigán", an anagram of her given name. Her work remained unpublished during her lifetime and was only anthologized and published posthumously.

Personal life

Born Agripina Casimira de los Dolores on 4 March 1833 in the city of Honda, then part of the Department of Cundinamarca, her parents were José María Samper Blanco and María Tomasa Agudelo y Tafur,[2] she was their only daughter and seventh out of the eight children born to José María and María Tomasa.[1] Two of her siblings stand out: José María, who married Soledad Acosta Kemble, both were writers and journalists in their own right; and Miguel, writer and prominent politician. On 4 July 1857 she married Manuel Ancízar Basterra, a scientist and writer, and out this marriage were born Roberto, Pablo, Inés, Jorge, and Manuel.[3] When she widowed in 1882, she moved with her children to Paris, where she died on 22 April 1892.[1]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Book: García Vásquez, Julio Cesar . Genealogía Colombiana . Ernesto Samper Pizano, Familiares Y Parentela . es . Family tree . Interconexion Colombia . 2013-04-08.
  2. Daniel . Samper Ortega . 1935–1936 . Village Library of Colombia . Biblioteca Aldeana de Colombia . 89 . 96 . Editorial Minerva . Bogotá . 316816714 . es . 2013-04-08.
  3. Anuario colombiano de historia social y de la cultura . Colombian Annuary of Social History and Culture . 26–27 . . Bogotá . es . 0120-2456 . 1586457 . 76 . 2013-04-08.