Clorinda Matto de Turner

Clorinda Matto was born in 1852 in the Cuzco region and grew up on the family hacienda of Paullo, among peasants from whom she learned Quechua. Married to an English doctor, Joseph Turner, she lived in Tinta; widowed in 1881, with an estate riddled with debts, she lived by her pen, first in Arequipa. She founded a journal in Cuzco, then edited an illustrated journal in Lima; the archbishop excommunicated her, and the crowd burned her writings and her effigy. In 1895, her house was looted and her presses destroyed; exiled to Argentina, she died in Buenos Aires on 25 October 1909.

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• NovelTorn from the NestAves sin nidoClorinda Matto de Turner · 1889Literature