Blanca Olmedo

{{short description|1908 novel by Lucila Gamero}}

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| name = Blanca Olmedo

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| author = Lucila Gamero

| country = Honduras

| language = Spanish

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| genre = Romantic novel

| pub_date = 1908

| media_type = Print

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Blanca Olmedo is perhaps the best known novel of the noted Honduran novelist Lucila Gamero. A romance novel, published at a time when the trend for romantic literature had fallen out of fashion in Central America, it was completed in 1903 and published in 1908.{{cite web|url=http://www.latribuna.hn/news/190/ARTICLE/35069/2008-06-01.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110720130136/http://www.latribuna.hn/news/190/ARTICLE/35069/2008-06-01.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 20, 2011|date=June 1, 2008|title=Blanca Olmedo: Cien años, de muchas lecturas|publisher=La Tribuna|language=es|access-date=April 13, 2009}} It is considered to be one of the most important novels in Honduran literature in the early twentieth century. It is unusual given that it was written by a female writer who was critical of the corrupt establishment in Honduras.{{cite web|author=Funes, José Antonio|url=http://cvc.cervantes.es/el_rinconete/anteriores/octubre_08/23102008_02.asp|title=Libros clave de la narrativa hondureña (I):Blanca Olmedo|publisher=Instituto Cervantes|language=es|access-date=April 13, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.latribuna.hn/news/105/ARTICLE/36029/2008-06-15.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110720130308/http://www.latribuna.hn/news/105/ARTICLE/36029/2008-06-15.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 20, 2011|date=June 15, 2008|title=Blanca Olmedo y la pluma de Lucila Gamero|publisher=La Tribuna|language=es|access-date=April 13, 2009}}