Nicolasa Montt (, Nicolasa Montt Barros; after marriage, Nicolasa Montt de Marambio;

Freirina Freirina is a Chilean commune and town in Huasco Province, Atacama Region. The commune spans an area of . Demographics According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute, Freirina had 5,666 inhabitants; of these, 3,469 (61.2%) liv ...

, 1857–1924) was a Chilean poet who published in regional newspapers and books. She also translated from French works by well-known French writers. Along with the Atacama writer

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and the Copapina

Rosario Orrego Rosario Orrego Castañeda (1834 – 21 May 1879), also known as Rosario Orrego de Uribe, Rosario Orrego de Chacón, and by her pseudonym Una Madre, was a Chilean novelist, poet, editor, and educator. She is considered Chile's first woman novelist, ...

, Montt is considered one of the pioneers in the field of women's poetry and writing in Chile.

Biography

Hailing from the

Montt family The Montt family of Chile, descended from Catalan immigrants to the country, includes a number of people who achieved political office and prominence in other fields: * José Anacleto Montt Goyenechea (1802–1867): lawyer and politician *Manuel ...

, her parents were José Antonio Montt and Beatriz Barros. She married Nicolás Marambio with whom she had seven children, among them, the lawyer

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(1886–1936), who became a

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and

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of Chile. Montt made his debut in literature probably between 1891 and 1901, a period in which texts by Mercedes Belzú de Dorado, Rosa Araneda, Victoria Sainte-Marie, Sara María García de Arias, Graciela Sotomayor, Laura Bustos, and Cristina Otaegui, among others, were published. Her work was characterized by the use of a personal language mainly due to the "absence of women from the cultural space due to the prevailing patriarchalism and the conservatism of Chilean political and social institutions" present at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. She wrote for several journalistic media. As a translator, she dealt mainly with French texts by Enrique Conscience and Nanine Sauvestre, among others.

Selected works

* 1897 - ''Rejina: poema dedicado a su hija Julia Elisa en el día de su cumple-años: agosto 24 de 1894'' * 1902 - ''Carlota i Luisita o las dos hermanas : poema, dedicado a su querida hijita Berta Carmela'' * 1906 - ''Páginas íntimas''

References

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