Rosalía de Castro

Rosalía de Castro was born in 1837 in Santiago de Compostela, the natural daughter of a priest and a woman from a hidalga family. She grew up between Padrón and Santiago, then settled in Madrid in 1856, where the following year she published a first collection in Castilian. She married the historian and journalist Manuel Murguía, who edited her books, and had seven children. A poet and novelist in Galician as in Castilian, she is one of the great figures of the revival of Galician letters, the Rexurdimento. Stricken with cancer, she died in Padrón in 1885.

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• PoetryGalician SongsCantares gallegosRosalía de Castro · 1863LiteraturePublic domain