Carmen Lyra

Carmen Lyra, whose real name was María Isabel Carvajal, was born in San José in 1887, or in 1888 according to the National Library. A teacher who qualified in 1904, she founded a children's magazine with Lilia González and on 13 June 1919 led the teachers' demonstration against the Tinoco dictatorship. A scholarship holder in Europe, she taught children's literature at the teacher training college and in 1926 founded the country's first Montessori nursery school. A leader of the Communist Party, exiled to Mexico after the civil war of 1948, she died in Mexico City on 14 May 1949.

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• TaleCuentos de mi tía PanchitaCarmen Lyra · 1920not translated into EnglishLiterature