Soledad Acosta

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Soledad Acosta Kemble
Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán (father)
Miguel Samper Agudelo
(brother-in-law)
Agripina Samper Agudelo
(sister-in-law)
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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Acosta and the second or maternal family name is Kemble.

Soledad Acosta Kemble (5 May 1833 – 17 March 1913)

Colombian writer and journalist. A sophisticated, well-travelled, and social woman, she received a much higher and better rounded education than most women of her time and country, and enjoyed a high standing in society, not only for her family background, but for her own literary endeavours. She collaborated in various newspapers including El Comercio, El Deber, and Revista Americana, among other periodicals. Using her writings, she was a feminist well ahead of her time, she lobbied for equal education for women, and wrote on various topics pertaining to female participation in society and family, encouraging others to become proactive in the workforce and in the restoration of society.[2][3][4]

Personal life

Soledad was born on 5 May 1833,

José María Samper Agudelo, a renowned writer and journalist, and together they had four daughters, Bertilda, who become a nun, and took up poetry like her parents, Carolina (b. 1857) and María Josefa (b. 1860), both of whom died in 1872 during a smallpox outbreak in Bogotá, and Blanca Leonor (b. 1862).[8]

Daguerreotype of Soledad Acosta c 1880

Selected works

  • Acosta, Soledad (1869). Novelas y Cuadros de la Vida Suramericana [Novels and Portraits of South American Life] (in Spanish).
    OCLC 7568301
    .
  • Acosta, Soledad (1886). Los Piratas En Cartagena [Pirates in Cartagena] (in Spanish).
    OCLC 228041823
    .
  • Acosta, Samper (1888) [1876]. Una Holandesa En America [A Dutch Woman in America] (in Spanish).
    OCLC 15266567
    .
  • Acosta, Soledad (1895). La Mujer En La Sociedad Moderna [The Woman in Modern Society] (in Spanish). Paris, France: Garnier.
    OCLC 1547187
    .
  • Acosta, Soledad (1901). Biografía del general Joaquín Acosta: prócer de la independencia, historiador, geógrafo, hombre científico y filántropo [Biography of General Joaquín Acosta: Precursor of the Independence, Historian, Geographer, Man of Science and Philanthropist] (in Spanish).
    OCLC 7706472
    .

References

  1. ^ a b Samper, Santiago. Melo González, Jorge Orlando (ed.). Gran Enciclopedia de Colombia del Círculo de Lectores, tomo de biografías [Great Encyclopaedia of Colombia, Volume of Biographies] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Luis Ángel Arango Library. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  2. OCLC 32015586
    . Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  3. OCLC 72161781
    . Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  4. ISBN 9780862328757
    . Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  5. ISBN 0787640808
    .
  6. ^ Due to Phonetic transcription, Mrs. Kemble's maiden name has been changed to "Rou" in many Spanish language sources.
  7. OCLC 27175549.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  8. OCLC 254691569. Retrieved 31 October 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )

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