Domitila García de Coronado

Domitila García de Coronado
Born Domitila García Doménico
(1847-05-07)7 May 1847
Camagüey, Cuba
Died 1938 (aged 90–91)
Havana, Cuba
Occupation
  • Writer
  • Journalist
  • Professor
Language Spanish
Nationality Cuban
Genre Essay
Notable work Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas.[1]
Spouse Tomás Coronado

Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938)[note 1] was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country.[4][5]

On 17 May 1891 she founded the Academy of Women Typographers.[6] She founded and edited various publications, including the journals La Antorcha and El Céfiro together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901).[7] Besides these, she was editor of La Mujer, together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and Isabel Margarita Ordetx.[8] 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).[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Some authors list her year of death as 1937.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Campuzano, Luisa (2004). 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)] (in Spanish). Ediciones Unión. p. 223. ISBN 978-959-209-605-9.
  2. ↑ Schmidt, Aileen (2003). Mujeres excéntricas: la escritura autobiográfica femenina en Puerto Rico y Cuba [Eccentric women: women's autobiographical writing in Puerto Rico and Cuba] (in Spanish). Ediciones Callejón. p. 192. ISBN 978-188-174-812-0.
  3. ↑ Barcia, María del Carmen; Carr Parúas, Fernando; Leyva Collazo, Yahima; Ibarra, Jorge (2009). Mujeres al margen de la historia [Women on the margin of history] (in Spanish). Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. p. 251. ISBN 978-959-061-224-4.
  4. ↑ Marrero, Juan (1999). Dos siglos de Periodismo en Cuba: Momentos, Hechos y Rostros [Two Centuries of Journalism in Cuba: Moments, Facts and Faces] (in Spanish). Pablo de la Torriente Editorial. p. 147. ISBN 978-959-259-031-1.
  5. ↑ Guerra, Ramiro (1952). Historia de la Nación Cubana, Tomo VII [History of the Cuban Nation, Volume 7] (in Spanish). Editorial Historia de la Nación Cubana.
  6. ↑ Asociación de Reporters de La Habana (1952). 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] (in Spanish). Havana Reporters' Association. p. 440.
  7. ↑ Cámara, Madeline (2002). La Letra Rebelde: Estudios de Excritoras Cubanas [Rebel Letter: Studies of Cuban Women Writers] (in Spanish). Ediciones Universal. p. 155. ISBN 978-089-729-984-8.
  8. ↑ "Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana" [Dictionary of Cuban Literature] (in Spanish). Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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