Domitila

1926 · 65379 — Havana: imprenta de "Elf Figaro 1926. Second expanded and revised edition 4to pp. 256 4; 29 plates mostly portraits after photographs; original upper wrapper bound in; later brown calf gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; small snag at the top of the spine text clean and the binding is sound very good; The first edition of the Album poetico was published in 1868 and was the first anthology of Cuban women writers published. Beginning with the Condesa de Merlin each chapter includes a portrait plate save the final two entries a brief biography and poems and prose excerpts. The biographical section for Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda the author to whom the book is dedicated is significantly larger than the rest with additional plates showing her childhood home and a facsimile of a letter from her to Coronado. Avellaneda was a prolific and well-regarded author best known for her first novel Sab which was banned in Cuba for its sympathetic depiction of slavery and suggestions of interracial relations. Domitila Garcia de Coronado was likewise a well-established Cuban author activist publisher and printer and the first woman journalist in the country Negritas y Cursivas at wordpress. imprenta de "Elf Figaro unknown