Juana Manuela Gorriti

Juana Manuela Gorriti was born on 15 June 1818 in Horcones, near Rosario de la Frontera, in the province of Salta; her father, a general, had sat in the congress of Tucumán. In 1831, the family, driven out by the caudillo Facundo Quiroga, went to Tarija, in Bolivia, where she married Manuel Isidoro Belzú, a future Bolivian president, who abandoned her. In Lima, she kept a literary salon and opened a school. Having returned to Buenos Aires, she died there on 6 November 1892.

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