1. Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada was a Spanish writer, famous for her poetry, considered the equivalent of contemporary Romantic authors like Rosalia de Castro.
10 Facts About Carolina Coronado
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Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada was born on 12 December 1820 in Almendralejo, Badajoz in the province of Extremadura.
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Carolina Coronado was the daughter of Nicolas Coronado y Gallardo and Maria Antonia Romero de Tejada y Falcon.
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Carolina Coronado's family was well-to-do, but they adhered to a progressive ideology that caused her father and grandfather to be persecuted.
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Carolina Coronado was self-taught in reading and writing and continued her studies despite the criticism of her family.
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Carolina Coronado even appeared to "die" on several occasions, leading her to interest with the theme of death.
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At a time when women were not invited to public political conversations, Carolina Coronado succeeded in persuasively arguing against Spain's imperial legacy and urging support to rectify her nation's past colonial blunders, especially the introduction of slavery to the Americas.
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Carolina Coronado had a revolutionary spirit, and she became famous while living in Madrid for the literary salons she held, a group that was called the Hermandad Lirica.
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Carolina Coronado's gatherings served as a meeting-point for progressive writers and a refuge for the persecuted, including many of the most well-known authors of the time.
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Carolina Coronado authored several plays like El cuadro de la esperanza, Alfonso IV de Leon, Un alcalde de monterilla, and El divino Figueroa, but these endeavors are considered minor in comparison to her non-theatrical works.