Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta
{{Short description|Argentine writer}}
{{family name hatnote|Pelliza Pueyrredon|de Sagasta|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Josefina Pelliza Pueyrredon de Sagasta
|image=Josefina Sagasta ElIndiscreto n65.jpg
|birth_place=Concordia, Entre Ríos
|birth_date=4 April 1848
|death_place=Buenos Aires
|death_date={{death date and age|1888|08|18|1848|04|04|df=y}}
|nationality=Argentine
|occupation=Poet and journalist
|known_for=One of the first female Argentine poets
}}
Josefina Pelliza Pueyrredon de Sagasta (born 4 April 1848, Concordia – d. 18 August 1888, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and writer. She was the daughter of Colonel Jose Maria Pelliza Gomez del Canto y D. Virginia de Pueyrredon (daughter of Juan Martin de Pueyrredon O'Doghan)
Work
Pelliza was one of the first women poets in Argentina.{{cite news|title=SON CUARENTA POETAS NACIDAS ENTRE LOS AÑOS 1800 Y 1901|url=https://www.clarin.com/ediciones-anteriores/primeras-poetas-argentinas-antologia_0_ryXt0PRTKe.html|work=Clarín|date=9 December 2009|language=es|access-date=12 August 2016}} Her best known poems are Pasionarias and Lirios silvestres, and her most popular novellas are Margarita, La Chiriguana, and El César. She worked as director of La Alborada del Plata magazine,{{cite web|last=Roffé|first=Reina|title=Periodistas y viajeras en los años de la independencia argentina|url=http://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/mujer_independencias/roffe.htm|website=Centro Virtual Cervantes|language=es}} which she used to demand social reform and make criticisms. She persistently advocated for women's rights,{{cite web|title=JOSEFINA PELLIZA DE SAGASTA|url=http://www.autoresdeconcordia.com.ar/bioautor.php?idAutor=109|website=autoresdeconcordia.com|publisher=Autores de Concordia|access-date=12 August 2016|language=es|archive-date=14 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174328/http://www.autoresdeconcordia.com.ar/bioautor.php?idAutor=109|url-status=dead}} but maintained that women should be valued for their traditional roles in family and society.{{cite news|title="Ni Dios ni patrón ni marido"|url=https://www.mdzol.com/nota/215141-ni-dios-ni-patron-ni-marido/|work=MDZ Online|date=8 June 2010|language=es|access-date=12 August 2016}} Pelliza believed that women were divine in nature because of their ability to create life and that involvement of women in the economy and higher education was immoral and unfit for women.{{cite journal|title=The Emancipation of Women|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/363716/summary|journal=Journal of Women's History|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|volume=7|date=1995|pages=102|doi=10.1353/jowh.2010.0494|s2cid=144752166}}
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Category:Argentine women poets