Domitila García de Coronado
{{Short description|Cuban writer, journalist, editor, professor (1847–1938)}}
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{{Infobox writer
|name = Domitila García de Coronado
|image =Domitila García de Coronado (cropped).jpg
|birth_name = Domitila García Doménico
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1847|05|07}}
|birth_place = Camagüey, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire
|death_date = {{Death year and age|1938|1847}}
|death_place = Havana, Republic of Cuba
|genre = Essay
|language = Spanish
|occupation = {{Plainlist|
- Writer
- Journalist
- Professor
}}
|spouse = Tomás Coronado
|notablework = Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas.{{Cite book |last=Campuzano |first=Luisa |title=Las Muchachas de La Habana No Tienen Temor de Dios...: Escritoras Cubanas (S. XVIII-XXI) |trans-title=The Girls of Havana Have No Fear of God...: Cuban Women Writers (18th–21st Century) |year=2004 |publisher=Ediciones Unión |isbn=978-959-209-605-9 |page=223 |language=Spanish}}
}}
Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938){{#tag:ref|Some authors list her year of death as 1937.{{Cite book |last=Schmidt |first=Aileen |title=Mujeres excéntricas: la escritura autobiográfica femenina en Puerto Rico y Cuba |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9791881748129 |url-access=registration |trans-title=Eccentric women: women's autobiographical writing in Puerto Rico and Cuba |year=2003 |publisher=Ediciones Callejón |isbn=978-188-174-812-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9791881748129/page/192 192] |language=Spanish}}{{Cite book |last1=Barcia |first1=María del Carmen |title=Mujeres al margen de la historia |trans-title=Women on the margin of history |year=2009 |publisher=Editorial de Ciencias Sociales |isbn=978-959-061-224-4 |page=251 |last2=Carr Parúas |first2=Fernando |last3=Leyva Collazo |first3=Yahima |last4=Ibarra |first4=Jorge |language=Spanish}}|group=note}} was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country.{{Cite book |last=Marrero |first=Juan |title=Dos siglos de Periodismo en Cuba: Momentos, Hechos y Rostros |trans-title=Two Centuries of Journalism in Cuba: Moments, Facts and Faces |year=1999 |publisher=Pablo de la Torriente Editorial |isbn=978-959-259-031-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dossiglosdeperio00marr/page/147 147] |language=Spanish |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dossiglosdeperio00marr/page/147 }}{{Cite book |last=Guerra |first=Ramiro |title=Historia de la Nación Cubana, Tomo VII |trans-title=History of the Cuban Nation, Volume 7 |year=1952 |publisher=Editorial Historia de la Nación Cubana |language=Spanish}}
Biography
Domitila García Doménico de Coronado was born on 7 May 1847 in Camagüey, Cuba.
On 17 May 1891, she founded the Academy of Women Typographers.{{Cite book |last=Asociación de Reporters de La Habana |title=Album del cincuentenario de la Asociación de Reporters de La Habana 1902–1952 |trans-title=Album of the 50th anniversary of the Havana Reporters' Association 1902–1952 |year=1952 |publisher=Havana Reporters' Association |page=440 |language=Spanish}} She founded and edited various publications, including the journals La Antorcha and El Céfiro together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901).{{Cite book |last=Cámara |first=Madeline |title=La Letra Rebelde: Estudios de Excritoras Cubanas |trans-title=Rebel Letter: Studies of Cuban Women Writers |year=2002 |publisher=Ediciones Universal |isbn=978-089-729-984-8 |page=155 |language=Spanish}} Besides these, she was editor of La Mujer, together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and Isabel Margarita Ordetx.{{Cite web |title=Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana |trans-title=Dictionary of Cuban Literature |url=http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/ill/02494907545027618976613/254m.htm |publisher=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes |language=Spanish |access-date=1 October 2016 |archive-date=1 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801085525/http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/ill/02494907545027618976613/254m.htm |url-status=dead }}
She also published the first anthology of Cuban women writers in 1868, titled Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cubanas (Poetic photo album of Cuban women writers), which included the biography of Emelina Peyrellade Zaldívar, a 19th-century writer and translator and of Brígida Agüero y Agüero (1837–1866), a 19th-century poet from Camagüey.{{Cite book|last=Coronado|first=Domitila García de|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3wNAAAAYAAJ&q=DOMITILA+GARCIA|title=Album poético-fotográfico de las escritoras cubanas|date=1868|publisher=Viuda e hs. de Soler|language=es}}
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Category:19th-century Cuban women writers
Category:Cuban women journalists
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