Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938) was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country.
Biography
Domitila García Doménico de Coronado was born on 7 May 1847 in
Camagüey
Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.
It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by S ...
, Cuba.
On 17 May 1891 she founded the Academy of Women Typographers. She founded and edited various publications, including the journals ''La Antorcha'' and ''El Céfiro'' together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901). Besides these, she was editor of ''La Mujer'', together with
Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and
Isabel Margarita Ordetx.
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''), which included the biography of
Emelina Peyrellade Zaldívar
Emelina Peyrellade Zaldívar or Emelina Peyrellade (Camagüey, 1842–1877) was a Cuban writer and translator.
Biography
She was born in Camagüey in 1842. She was the daughter of the French publicist Emilio Peyrellade. According to Domitila Ga ...
, a 19th-century writer and translator and of
Brígida Agüero y Agüero (1837-1866), a 19th-century poet from Camagüey.
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1847 births
1938 deaths
Cuban academics
Cuban editors
Cuban journalists
Cuban women writers
Cuban women journalists
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