GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Y ARTEAGA
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A distinguished Spanish poet, dramatist, and novelist; born at Puerto Principe, Cuba, March 23, 1814; died in Madrid, Feb. 2, 1873. Under the pseudonym "Peregrina" she contributed to Andalusian journals many "Lyric Poems" (1851-54), and afterward wrote a series of spirited novels: "Two Women"; "The Baroness de Joux"; "Dolores"; and others. She gained still higher distinction with the tragedies "Alfonso Munio", the hero of which was her own ancestor, and "The Prince of Viana". Her later compositions have a tone of melancholy, but are not inferior to those that went before them either in grace of style or in forcefulness of thought; among these are: Biblical dramas, as "Saul" and "Balthasar"; the spiritual song, "At the Cross"; and "The Last Accent of my Harp" (1850). But she did not abandon dramatic composition: in the later years of her life she composed 16 plays which have a place on the Spanish stage.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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