Blanca Olmedo Explained

Blanca Olmedo
Author:	Lucila Gamero
Country:	Honduras
Language:	Spanish
Genre:	Romantic novel
Pub Date:	1908
Media Type:	Print

Blanca Olmedo is perhaps the best known novel of the noted Honduran novelist Lucila Gamero. A romance novel, published at a time when the trend for romantic literature had fallen out of fashion in Central America, it was completed in 1903 and published in 1908.^[1] It is considered to be one of the most important novels in Honduran literature in the early twentieth century. It is unusual given that it was written by a female writer who was critical of the corrupt establishment in Honduras.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Blanca Olmedo: Cien años, de muchas lecturas. https://archive.today/20110720130136/http://www.latribuna.hn/news/190/ARTICLE/35069/2008-06-01.html. dead. July 20, 2011. June 1, 2008. La Tribuna. es. April 13, 2009.
2. Web site: Funes, José Antonio. Libros clave de la narrativa hondureña (I):Blanca Olmedo. Instituto Cervantes. es. April 13, 2009.
3. Web site: Blanca Olmedo y la pluma de Lucila Gamero. https://archive.today/20110720130308/http://www.latribuna.hn/news/105/ARTICLE/36029/2008-06-15.html. dead. July 20, 2011. June 15, 2008. La Tribuna. es. April 13, 2009.