Hermandad Lírica
The Hermandad Lírica (Lyrical Sisterhood) was the name given to a group of 19th century Spaniards, Spanish Romanticism, Romantic poetesses, women poets who congregated and gave each other mutual support. Their Salon (gathering), salon examined literature and the issues facing Spain in the 19th century. Their first publications started around 1840. The driving force in the group was the poet Carolina Coronado. The body of their work was Homoerotic poetry, homoerotic; directed at other women, often other poets. After twenty years the group began to wane and their work began to be discredited and ignored. In addition to Coronado, members of the group included Vicenta García Miranda, , , Rogelia León, , Ángela Grassi, Manuela Cambronero, Dolores Cabrera y Heredia and , among others. Background Many of these self-taught women were born around the year 1820 and belonged to families of the well-to-do Spanish bourgeoisie. They shared similar poetic interests, literary influences, ...
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Carolina Coronado (detalle)
Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada (12 December 1820 – 15 January 1911) was a Spanish writer, famous for her poetry, considered the equivalent of contemporary Romanticism, Romantic authors like Rosalía de Castro. As one of the most well-known poets writing in mid-19th-century Spain, she also played a diplomatic role (she was married to Horatio Perry, the American Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Madrid.) She both negotiated with the Spanish royal family in private and, through a series of widely published poems, promoted the aims of the Lincoln administration, especially abolition of slavery. Lisa Surwillo, "Poetic Diplomacy: Carolina Coronado and the American Civil War." ''Comparative American Studies An International Journal'' 5.4 (2007): 409-422. Youth Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada was born on 12 December 1820 in Almendralejo, Badajoz in the province of Extremadura. She was the daughter of Nicolás Coronado y Gallardo and María Antonia Romero de ...
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