Amelia Solar de Claro
{{Short description|Chilean poet}}
{{Infobox writer
| image = Amelia Solar de Claro.jpg
| alt = B&W oval portrait of a woman with hair in an up-do, wearing a pale-colored dress.
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| birth_name = Maria Amelia de las Mercedes Solar
| birth_date = October 11, 1836 -
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| death_date = November 21, 1915
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| occupation = Writer
| language = Spanish
| nationality = Chile
| genre = {{hlist|poems|plays|essays}}
| notable_works = María Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso
| spouse = José Luis Claro y Cruz
| children = 4
}}
Amelia Solar de Claro (October 11, 1836 - November 21, 1915) was a Chilean poet, playwright, and essayist.{{cite book |last1=Szmulewicz |first1=Efraín |title=Diccionario de la literatura chilena |date=1984 |publisher=Editorial Andrés Bello |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbgtAAAAIAAJ |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es}}{{cite book |last1=Alvarado |first1=Felícitas Klimpel |title=La mujer chilena: el aporte femenino al progreso de Chile, 1910-1960 |date=1962 |publisher=Editorial Andrés Bello |page=304 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gv8pAAAAYAAJ |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es}}{{cite thesis|last=Roark|first=Carolyn Dianne|title=Tesis presentada como requisitos para optar al grado de Doctor of Philosophy|year=2002|publisher=Faculty of the Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin - Socializing the Audience: Culture, Nation-Building, and Pedagogy in Chile’s Teatro Infantil|language=en|url=http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/872/roarkc022.pdf}}
Biography
Maria Amelia de las Mercedes Solar was the daughter of José María del Solar Marín and Mercedes Marín del Solar, the first Chilean poet and intellectual.
She married José Luis Claro y Cruz, the promoter and one of the founders of the Cuerpo de Bomberos de Santiago,{{cite web |title=Cuerpo de Bomberos de Santiago - Personajes Destacados |url=http://www.cbs.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125&Itemid=147 |website=cbs.cl |via=web.archive.org |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es |date=1 April 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401115422/http://www.cbs.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125&Itemid=147 | archive-date=2012-04-01 }}{{cite web |title=CMN - Portada |url=http://www.monumentos.cl/OpenNews/asp/pagDefault.asp?argInstanciaId=1 |website=monumentos.cl |via=web.archive.org |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es |date=21 April 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421073247/http://www.monumentos.cl/OpenNews/asp/pagDefault.asp?argInstanciaId=1 | archive-date=2013-04-21 }} with whom she had four children, among them the jurist Luis Claro Solar{{cite web |title=Personajes Ilustres |url=http://www.laheroica.cl/personajes-ilustres/ |website=La Heroica |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es}} and the deputy Raúl Claro Solar.{{cite web |title=Raúl Claro Solar - Reseñas Biográficas Parlamentarias |url=http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Claro_Solar |website=historiapolitica.bcn.cl |via=web.archive.org |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es |date=21 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221200940/http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Claro_Solar |archive-date=2014-02-21 }}
She is recognized for having written and published one of the first dramatic texts of Chilean children's literature: María Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso (María Cinderella: comedy in 3 acts and verse), a comic work that was performed in Valparaíso in 1884.{{cite book |last1=Muñoz |first1=Manuel Peña |title=Historia de la literatura infantil chilena |date=1982 |publisher=Andres Bello |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9IJPJyYwl4C |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es}}{{cite web |title=María Cenicienta (1884) |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-97885.html |website=www.memoriachilena.cl |publisher=Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile |access-date=26 September 2023}}{{cite web |title=Los primeros textos de literatura infantil |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-95644.html |website=www.memoriachilena.cl |publisher=Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile |access-date=26 September 2023}} Together with other writers such as Delfina María Hidalgo or Quiteria Varas Marín, Solar published some of the first texts assigned to Chilean women's poetry at the end of the 19th century.{{cite book |last1=Miranda |first1=Marta Elba |title=Mujeres chilenas |date=1940 |publisher=Nascimento |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_tUAAAAMAAJ |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=es}}
Selected works
- Haroldo: episodio del siglo XV, tomado del francés (Santiago: Imprenta "Victoria", 1887). [https://books.google.com/books?id=VuhUAAAAMAAJ (text)]
- [http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0050870.pdf María Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso] (Santiago: Establecimiento Poligráfico Roma, 1898; Impr, i Libr. Excelsior, 1917). [https://books.google.com/books?id=0xcwzwEACAAJ&q=Amelia+Solar+de+Claro+Mar%C3%ADa+Cenicienta (text)]
- Recuerdos (Santiago: Imp. Universitaria, 1914). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p-IvzwEACAAJ&q=Amelia+Solar+de+Claro+Recuerdos (text)]
- Poesías de la Sra. Amelia Solar de Claro (Santiago: Impr. y Encuadernación Antigua Inglesa, 1916). [https://books.google.com/books?id=pF6ZGwAACAAJ&q=Amelia+Solar+de+Claro (text)]
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Category:19th-century Chilean poets