Domitila García de Coronado explained

Domitila García de Coronado
Birth Name:Domitila García Doménico
Birth Date:1847 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Camagüey, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire
Death Place:Havana, Republic of Cuba
Genre:Essay
Language:Spanish
Spouse:Tomás Coronado
Notablework:Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas.[1]

Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938) was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country.[2] [3]

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.[4] She founded and edited various publications, including the journals La Antorcha and El Céfiro together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901).[5] Besides these, she was editor of La Mujer, together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and Isabel Margarita Ordetx.[6]

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.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Campuzano, Luisa . 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) . 2004 . Ediciones Unión . 978-959-209-605-9 . 223 . Spanish.
  2. Book: Marrero, Juan . Dos siglos de Periodismo en Cuba: Momentos, Hechos y Rostros . Two Centuries of Journalism in Cuba: Moments, Facts and Faces . 1999 . Pablo de la Torriente Editorial . 978-959-259-031-1 . 147 . Spanish . registration .
  3. Book: Guerra, Ramiro . Historia de la Nación Cubana, Tomo VII . History of the Cuban Nation, Volume 7 . 1952 . Editorial Historia de la Nación Cubana . Spanish.
  4. Book: Asociación de Reporters de La Habana . 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 . 1952 . Havana Reporters' Association . 440 . Spanish.
  5. Book: Cámara, Madeline . La Letra Rebelde: Estudios de Excritoras Cubanas . Rebel Letter: Studies of Cuban Women Writers . 2002 . Ediciones Universal . 978-089-729-984-8 . 155 . Spanish.
  6. Web site: Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana . Dictionary of Cuban Literature . . Spanish . 1 October 2016 . 1 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190801085525/http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/ill/02494907545027618976613/254m.htm . dead .
  7. Book: Coronado, Domitila García de. Album poético-fotográfico de las escritoras cubanas. 1868. Viuda e hs. de Soler. es.