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Aurora Cáceres

Died in 1958

Zoila Aurora Cáceres was born in 1877, the daughter of Andrés Avelino Cáceres, leader of the resistance to the Chilean occupation and later president, and of Antonia Moreno Leyva. Raised in Germany by nuns, she attended courses at the Sorbonne and in Paris befriended Rubén Darío and Amado Nervo. Married to the Guatemalan writer Enrique Gómez Carrillo, she obtained an annulment in 1907. She founded feminist circles in Lima, organised a women's strike against the cost of living in 1919 and wrote her war memoirs with her father. She also signed as Evangelina, and died in 1958.

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