Rogelia León Nieto (16 September 1828 – 16 May 1870) was a Spanish Romantic poet, playwright, essayist, and narrative writer.

Biography

Rogelia León was born in

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on 16 September 1828. She received an education proper to a noble family, attending the school of Santa Cruz de Granada and taking classes on literature that were offered at the Liceo Granada. These encouraged her to write poetry. Her first poems were featured in the Granadan magazine ''El Capricho''. She continued to publish in local periodicals such as ''El Eco de Occidente'', ''El Álbum Granadino'', ''La Alhambra'', ''El Liceo Granadino'', ''El Bético'', ''El Liceo de Granada'', ''El Jueves'', and ''El Protector del Bello Sexo'', then expanded to other Andalusian magazines. She eventually began writing for national publications such as ''La Mujer'', ''El Fénix'', ''La Aurora de la Vida'', ''La Mujer Cristiana'', ''El Museo Literario'', and ''El Álbum de las Familias''. She was a principal contributor to '' La Violeta'', directed by

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, writing poetry, novellas, and articles. In 1857, her poetry collection ''Autos de la Alhambra'' was published. In one of the poems, the lyrical self is

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lamenting the predilection that men show towards beautiful and talented women. She was an academic-teacher at the Liceo de Granada, a member of the

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Scientific, Literary, and Artistic Circle, and a merit member of the

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Scientific-Literary Academy. Along with

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (March 23, 1814 – February 1, 1873) was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Born in Puerto Príncipe, now Camagüey, she lived in Cuba until she was 22. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where ...

Concepción Arenal Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, ...

, and , she was a defender of the abolition of slavery. Her "Canción del esclavo" (Slave's Song) was published in ''La Violeta'' and ''Auras de la Alhambra'', with a poem dedicated to the Cuban poet . Rogelia León died in Granada on 16 May 1870.

Works

Poetry

* ''Autos de la Alhambra'' (1857)

Theater

* ''Fanni la escocesa'', also known as ''Jeannie la escocesa'', a three-act drama in verse, was the work that brought her the most literary fame. It premiered in Granada on 26 April 1857. Set in different parts of Great Britain, it develops the conflictive theme of the wars of religion that occurred during the

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era.

Narrative

* ''El niño y el perro'' (1861, in ''La Aurora de la Vida'') * ''Una pobre niña y la caridad cristiana'' (1862, in ''La Violeta'') * ''La manijera de barro'' (1864, in ''La Violeta'') * ''La Casa de Castril'' (1865), a volume collecting various legends and traditions from Granada

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Leon, Rogelia 1828 births 1870 deaths 19th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights Spanish women dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Spanish poets People from Granada Romantic poets Spanish women poets 19th-century Spanish women writers