Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo (4 March 1833 — 22 April 1892) was a Colombian poet. Having a literary family, she received an education not easily accessible to women of her time and country. She wrote

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and

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under the pseudonym "Pía-Rigán", an

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of her given name. Her work remained unpublished during her lifetime and was only anthologized and published posthumously.

Personal life

Born Agripina Casimira de los Dolores on 4 March 1833 in the city of

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, then part of the

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, her parents were José María Samper Blanco and María Tomasa Agudelo y Tafur, she was their only daughter and seventh out of the eight children born to José María and María Tomasa. Two of her siblings stand out:

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, who married Soledad Acosta Kemble, both were writers and journalists in their own right; and

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, writer and prominent politician. On 4 July 1857 she married Manuel Ancízar Basterra, a scientist and writer, and out this marriage were born Roberto, Pablo, Inés, Jorge, and Manuel. When she widowed in 1882, she moved with her children to

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, where she died on 22 April 1892.

Selected works

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References

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