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Dulce María Borrero
Dulce María Borrero de Luján (1883—1945) was a Cuban poet and essayist, "one of the leading feminists of her day". María Collado Romero, writing in 1929, called her "the most outstanding female figure in the Cuban intellectual world [...] her poetry surpasses that of all contemporary Cuban women poets". Life Dulce María Borrero was born 1883 in Cuba, the daughter of Esteban Borrero Echeverría. Her older sister was the poet Juana Borrero. Forced into exile at the outset of the Cuban War of Independence, the family emigrated to Key West in Florida in 1896. Dulce María returned to Cuba after the war had ended. While in Florida, Dulce María started publishing her poetry in ''Revista de Cayo Hueso''. A prominent member of the young modernista poets, she was one of four women poets included in the 1904 anthology ''Arpas Cubanas''. Her poem 'Tierra propria' [Our own land] represented Cuba as the mother-country, a site of maternal protection and nurturance. A sonnet 'Los Ríos' [T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Collado Romero
María Collado Romero (19 March 1885 – c. 1968) was a Cuban journalist, poet, and feminist. She was the first female news reporter and parliamentary reporter in Cuba. She was the creator and president of the Democratic Suffragist Party of Cuba. Biography María Josefa de la Santísima Trinidad Collado Romero was born in central Cimmarones (now the municipality Carlos Rojas) in Matanzas Province, which was formerly part of La Habana Province. She was part of an upper-class family. Early publications She began her career in journalism in 1913, though she encountered difficulties due to the machismo which was prevalent at the time. She published her first articles about women's rights in the magazine ''Protectora de la Mujer''. In 1920 she was named publicity director of the Women's Club. In 1924, the president of the National Suffragist Party, Amalia Mallén, named Collado her vice president. Later, due to differences around the party's position with respect to President Gerardo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulce María Borrero
Dulce María Borrero de Luján (1883—1945) was a Cuban poet and essayist, "one of the leading feminists of her day". María Collado Romero, writing in 1929, called her "the most outstanding female figure in the Cuban intellectual world [...] her poetry surpasses that of all contemporary Cuban women poets". Life Dulce María Borrero was born 1883 in Cuba, the daughter of Esteban Borrero Echeverría. Her older sister was the poet Juana Borrero. Forced into exile at the outset of the Cuban War of Independence, the family emigrated to Key West in Florida in 1896. Dulce María returned to Cuba after the war had ended. While in Florida, Dulce María started publishing her poetry in ''Revista de Cayo Hueso''. A prominent member of the young modernista poets, she was one of four women poets included in the 1904 anthology ''Arpas Cubanas''. Her poem 'Tierra propria' [Our own land] represented Cuba as the mother-country, a site of maternal protection and nurturance. A sonnet 'Los Ríos' [T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Borrero
Juana Borrero (May 18, 1877 – March 9, 1896) was a Cuban painter and poet. Biography Juana Borrero was born May 18, 1877. She was a native of the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana. She was the daughter of the writer and patriot Esteban Borrero Echevarría and of Consuelo Pierra. Borrero began painting when she was five. She wrote her first poem at seven, and spoke multiple languages by the time she was ten. The poet Julian de Casal was a family friend and became her literary mentor. In 1887, she entered the San Alejandro Arts Academy; by 1891 her poems were being published in magazines around Cuba, including ''La Habana Elegante,'' one of the leading periodicals of the time. She died of tuberculosis, in Key West, Florida, at the age of eighteen. She was buried in Key West, in a tomb belonging to friends of her family. Her gravesite was unidentified until a 1972 study by the Cuban Society of Archaeology and Ethnology in Exile. Her body was exhumed and transferred to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban War Of Independence
The Cuban War of Independence (), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Little War (1879–1880). The final three months of the conflict escalated to become the Spanish–American War, with United States forces being deployed in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands against Spain. Historians disagree as to the extent that United States officials were motivated to intervene for humanitarian reasons but agree that yellow journalism exaggerated atrocities attributed to Spanish forces against Cuban civilians. Background During the years 1879–1888 of the so-called "Rewarding Truce", lasting for 17 years from the end of the Ten Years' War in 1878, there were fundamental social changes in Cuban society. With the abolition of slavery in October 1886, freedmen joined the ranks of farmers and the urban working class. The economy could no longer sustain itse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Key West
Key West ( es, Cayo Hueso) is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida. Together with all or parts of the separate islands of Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Island, it constitutes the City of Key West. The Island of Key West is about long and wide, with a total land area of . It lies at the southernmost end of U.S. Route 1, the longest north–south road in the United States. Key West is about north of Cuba at their closest points. It is also southwest of Miami by air, about by road, and north-northeast of Havana. The City of Key West is the county seat of Monroe County, which includes a majority of the Florida Keys and part of the Everglades. The total land area of the city is . The official city motto is "One Human Family". Key West is the southernmost city in the contiguous United States and the westernmost island connected by highway in the Florida Keys. Duval Street, its main street, is in le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofelia Domínguez Navarro
Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (Mataguá, December 9, 1894 - Havana, July 7, 1976) was a Cuban writer, teacher, lawyer, feminist and activist. She was a proponent of the rights of women and illegitimate children. As a journalist, Domínguez Navarro supported feminist views while writing for various media in Cuba, and in 1935, became the first woman newspaper director in the country with '' La Palabra''. She was noted as one of the leading intellectuals of the decades of 1930 and 1940, with Mirta Aguirre and Mariblanca Sabas Aloma. Biography The daughter of Florentino Dominguez and Paula Navarro, she was born into a family with revolutionary ideals who were participant activists. Her mother passed away when she was just fourteen years old, and the care of her younger siblings fell on her. However, she was able to still graduate from high school. She graduated from university in 1918 with a Bachelor of Science, followed by a degree in Civil law from the University of Havana in 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariblanca Sabas Alomá
Mariblanca Sabas Alomá (February 10, 1901 – July 19, 1983) was a Cuban feminist, journalist and poet. A political activist, she was also a Minister without portfolio in the Cuban government under Ramón Grau and Carlos Prio. Her writing was devoted to the cause of women's rights, particularly the right to vote. Biography She was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1901. Her parents were Francisco Sabas Castillo and Belén Alomá Ciarlos. She studied at University of Havana, Columbia University and University of Puerto Rico. A founding member of the Grupo Minorista, she also served as president of the Partido Democrata Sufragista, and editor of ''La Mujer''. She wrote columns in the leftist periodicals, ''Social'' and ''Carteles''. For ''Carteles'', she wrote a series of homophobic articles in 1928 on female homosexuality, identifying lesbianism as a social disease. She also wrote for ''Bohemia'' and ''Avance'' (1920s-1930s), in 1930 she published a book titled Feminismo - Cuestiones Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta
Ofelia de la Concepción Rodríguez Acosta García (9 February 1902, in Pinar del Río – 28 June 1975, in Havana or Mexico) was a Cuban writer, journalist, radical feminist, and activist. She wrote feminist chronicles, stories, essays, novels, and a play. She is considered one of Cuba's most famous social reformers. Early life Rodríguez's father was a writer and intellectual. She attended the Institute of Havana and later received a grant to study in Europe and Mexico. At the age of 12, Rodríguez wrote the novel ''Evocaciones'', which was published in 1922. Career Rodríguez was one of the most prolific writers of the 1920s and 1930s, publishing novels, stories, a play, and many magazine articles. Together with Mariblanca Sabas Alomá Mariblanca Sabas Alomá (February 10, 1901 – July 19, 1983) was a Cuban feminist, journalist and poet. A political activist, she was also a Minister without portfolio in the Cuban government under Ramón Grau and Carlos Prio. Her writing was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States civil service, is passed. * January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey, United States, installed by Thomas Edison. * February – ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi is first published complete in book form, in Italy. * February 15 – Tokyo Electrical Lightning Grid, predecessor of Tokyo Electrical Power (TEPCO), one of the largest electrical grids in Asia and the world, is founded in Japan. * February 16 – The '' Ladies' Home Journal'' is published for the first time, in the United States. * February 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 Deaths
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: ** Nazi Germany, Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the ''Luftwaffe'' to cripple Allies of World War II, Allied air forces in the Low Countries. ** Chenogne massacre: German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. * January 6 – WWII: A German offensive recaptures Esztergom, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary from the Russians. * January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army. * January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian Offensive, to eliminate German forces in East Pruss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
