Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra (1844–1890) was a Peruvian writer, poet, composer and pianist. She was considered to be one of the most prominent poets of the 1870 generation. Marquez also wrote prose articles, and a score for the dramatic zarzuela composed by brother, Arnaldo Márquez, titled ''La Novia del Colegial''. Her first articles were published in ''El Correo del Perú'' and ''El Cosmorama'', always with a pseudonym.

Biography

Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra descended from a family who was successful in the fine arts. She was the sister of Luis and Arnaldo Márquez, considered among the first great writers of Peru. She studied in the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Belén of

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, and published articles and poems to diverse publications like ''El Correo de Perú'', ''El Cosmorama'', or ''La Alborada''. Some poems were included in the collective works ''Parnaso peruano'' (1871) and ''Poetisas americanas'' (1896). Her numerous poems were scattered in magazines over many years, but were forgotten later. In addition to her literary talents, Marquez was an excellent pianist who also wrote beautiful lyrics. She was the author of several compositions for singing and piano, as well as a dramatic

zarzuela () is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name o ...

entitled ''La novia del colegial''. Marquez was the mother of the writer Delia Castro Márquez and grandmother of the writer Serafina Quinteras.

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