Mercedes Marín del Solar

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Mercedes Marín del Solar (September 11, 1804 - December 21, 1866) was a Chilean poet, school reformer, and women's rights activist.{{Cite web |title=Mercedes Marín Recabarren (1804-1866) - Memoria Chilena |url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-3612.html |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=Memoria Chilena: Portal |language=es}}

Marin del Solar hosted a literary salon in her home and advocated for women's right to education in Chile. Her daughter, Amelia Solar de Claro, was a Chilean poet, playwright and essayist.

Selected works

=Poetry collections=

  • Canto Fúnebre a la Muerte de Don Diego Portales (1837; under the name "por una Dama Chilena")
  • A la Muerte del Ilustre Sabio (dedicated to Andrés Bello)
  • Canto a la Patria (1857)
  • Al Retrato de mi Marido
  • A mi Hija Carolina
  • A mi Hija Luisa

=Non-fiction=

  • Plan de Estudios para una niña (1840)

References

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Sources

  • Mercedes Marín del Solar (1804-1866). Obras reunidas. Compilación, estudio preliminar y notas críticas de Joyce Contreras Villalobos. Santiago: Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana/ DIBAM, 2015.

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Category:1804 births

Category:1866 deaths

Category:19th-century Chilean poets

Category:Chilean salon-holders

Category:Chilean feminists

Category:Chilean women poets

Category:19th-century Chilean women writers

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