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Aurelia Castillo de González

Aurelia Castillo de González
Aurelia Castillo de González
	Aurelia Castillo de González
Born	1842
Died	1920 (aged 77–78)
Occupation	Writer

Cuban writer (1842-1920)

Aurelia Castillo de González (known in Cuba as “nuestra Madame de Sévigné“;^[1] 1842–1920) was a Cuban writer. She wrote short stories, poems, prose, and was also a typographer, biographer, editor, and travel writer.^[2]

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Aurelia Castillo de González was born in Camagüey in 1842, spent much time in European travel, and then settled in Havana. She first attracted literary attention by her elegy on “El Lugareno” in 1866, and since that time, became an incessant contributor to Cuban literature in verse and prose. She was the author of a study of the life and works of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, of a volume of fables, and a number of satires. Five volumes of her works were published in 1913.^[3] Among her work is the translation of the book La hija de Yorio by Gabriele D’Annunzio.^[4] Castillo de González founded the Academia de Artes y Letras (Academy of Arts and Letters). She died in Camagüey in 1920.

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Schmidt 2003, p. 77.
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Paravisini-Gebert & Romero-Cesareo 2016, p. 207.
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Johnson 1920, p. 1120.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Johnson, Willis Fletcher (1920). The History of Cuba (Complete) (Public domain ed.). Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4655-1428-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Bibliography

Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth; Romero-Cesareo, Ivette (30 April 2016). Women At Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan US. ISBN 978-1-137-08515-3.
Schmidt, Aileen (2003). Mujeres excéntricas: la escritura autobiográfica femenina en Puerto Rico y Cuba. Ediciones Callejón. ISBN 978-1-881748-12-0.

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