María Leal de Noguera

María Leal de Noguera, born María Leal Rodríguez, was born in Lagunilla, near Santa Cruz, in the province of Guanacaste, in 1892 according to La Nación and the Ministry of Education, in 1896 according to her publisher. A scholarship holder in San José in 1907, she qualified as a teacher in 1914 at the annex school of the Colegio Superior de Señoritas, where one of her teachers urged the pupils to collect popular tales. Back in her province, she founded in 1925 the first kindergarten of Santa Cruz. She died in 1989 in her native Lagunilla; the country declared her Benemérita de la Patria in 2022.

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• TaleCuentos viejosMaría Leal de Noguera · 1923not translated into EnglishLiterature