Manuela Cambronero Explained

Manuela Cambronero
Birth Name:	Manuela María Cambronero de Lana Peña
Birth Date:	c. 1820
Birth Place:	A Coruña, Spain
Death Date:	c. 1854
Occupation:	Writer
Spouse:	Lorenzo Caballero

Manuela María Cambronero de Lana Peña (c. 1820 – c. 1854) was a Spanish writer.

Career

Born in A Coruña around 1820, little is known about Cambronero's life. Her father tragically disappeared, her brother was mentally ill, and Manuela and her husband Lorenzo Caballero suffered from serious ailments. She lived in Cádiz and Valladolid.^[1]

In Valladolid she premiered her play Sáfira, with great public success, as it was published in the Revista de Teatro (Theater Magazine). The young author, who was 20 years old, was also advised to make the last two acts into a single one.^[2]

She contributed to the magazine Galicia: Revista Universal de este Reino, published in A Coruña from 1860 to 1865. Her poems were written in Castilian Spanish rather than Galician. In one entitled A la Coruña, she continues the fashion of exalting her homeland, describing the landscape in a pleasant and nostalgic way. It is verse with a Costumbrist theme, with the meter and rhyme typical of erudite poetry. Her work also appeared in 1862's Álbum de la Caridad, along with that of poets such as Rosalía de Castro.^[3]

She was the first Latin American woman to publish a novel in Venezuela, as a folletín of the Diario de Avisos between March and April 1853.^[4]

Hermandad Lírica

She was part of the group called Hermandad Lírica (Lyrical Sisterhood), along with poets such as – with whom she maintained an intense epistolary relationship – Vicenta García Miranda, Carolina Coronado, Ángela Grassi, and .^[5] She published in El Pensil del Bello Sexo, a supplement to the magazine El Genio, directed by Victor Balaguer, which is considered the first anthology of Spanish women writers.^{[6] [7]}

Works

• Sáfira (Valladolid, 1842), a historical drama in five acts that deals with the love affair between a Muslim woman, Sáfira, and a Christian, Don Manrique^[1]
• El Ramillete: Inés (1846), novella^[1]
• Días de convalecencia (A Coruña, Domingo Puja, 1852), collection of poems and novellas^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cambronero de la Peña, Manuela (s. XIX) . MCNBiografias.com . Spanish . 2020-09-02.
2. Book: Cortés, Narciso Alonso . El Teatro en Valladolid: Siglo XIX . Theater in Valladolid: 19th Century . Imprenta Castellana . 31 . Spanish . 1947 . 2020-09-02 . COnnecting REpositories.
3. Escritura y visibilidad femenina en Galicia: Revista Universal de este Reino (La Coruña, 1860–65) . Women's Writing and Visibility in Galicia: Universal Magazine of This Kingdom (A Coruña, 1860-65) . Paula . Pérez Lucas . . 4, 9, 14, 18 . Spanish . 2020-09-02 . COnnecting REpositories.
4. Suspender una boda por diferencias políticas no es novedad . Suspending a Wedding Due to Political Differences is Nothing New . Gioconda . Espina . Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer . 10 . 25 . Caracas . 180 . Spanish . July–December 2005 . 2020-09-02.
5. Book: Kirkpatrick, Susan . Las Románticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain, 1835-1850 . . 9780520063709 . 64, 83 . 1989 . 2020-09-02 . Google Books.
6. La visibilidad de las escritoras del S. XIX en el espacio público de la prensa . The Visibility of 19th Century Women Writers in the Public Sphere of the Press . Mercedes . Lledó Patiño . Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico . 18 . 1134-1629 . 10.5209/rev_ESMP.2012.v18.40936 . 573 . Spanish . November 2012 . 2020-09-02. free .
7. News: Pensil del Bello Secso . El Nuevo Meteoro . Spanish . 8 . 1845-02-02 . 2020-09-02 . NewspaperArchive.
8. Book: Hidalgo, Dionisio . Diccionario general de bibliografía española . General Dictionary of Spanish Bibliography . 5 . Las Escuelas Pias . Madrid . 228 . Spanish . 1872 . 2020-09-02 . Google Books.