Manuela Cambronero

Manuela María Cambronero de Lana Peña (c. 1820 – c. 1854) was a Spanish writer.

Manuela Cambronero
Born	Manuela María Cambronero de Lana Peña c. 1820 A Coruña, Spain
Died	c. 1854
Occupation	Writer
Spouse	Lorenzo Caballero

Career

Born in A Coruña around 1820, little is known about Cambronero's life. Her father tragically disappeared, her brother was mentally ill, and Manuela and her husband Lorenzo Caballero suffered from serious ailments. She lived in Cádiz and Valladolid.^[1]

In Valladolid she premiered her play Sáfira, with great public success, as it was published in the Revista de Teatro (Theater Magazine). The young author, who was 20 years old, was also advised to make the last two acts into a single one.^[2]

She contributed to the magazine Galicia: Revista Universal de este Reino, published in A Coruña from 1860 to 1865. Her poems were written in Castilian Spanish rather than Galician. In one entitled A la Coruña, she continues the fashion of exalting her homeland, describing the landscape in a pleasant and nostalgic way. It is verse with a Costumbrist theme, with the meter and rhyme typical of erudite poetry. Her work also appeared in 1862's Álbum de la Caridad, along with that of poets such as Rosalía de Castro.^[3]

She was the first Latin American woman to publish a novel in Venezuela, as a folletín of the Diario de Avisos between March and April 1853.^[4]

Hermandad Lírica

She was part of the group called Hermandad Lírica (Lyrical Sisterhood), along with poets such as Amalia Fenollosa [es] – with whom she maintained an intense epistolary relationship – Vicenta García Miranda, Carolina Coronado, Ángela Grassi, and Robustiana Armiño [es].^[5] She published in El Pensil del Bello Sexo, a supplement to the magazine El Genio, directed by Victor Balaguer, which is considered the first anthology of Spanish women writers.^[6][7]

Works

• Sáfira (Valladolid, 1842), a historical drama in five acts that deals with the love affair between a Muslim woman, Sáfira, and a Christian, Don Manrique^[1]
• El Ramillete: Inés (1846), novella^[1]
• Días de convalecencia (A Coruña, Domingo Puja, 1852), collection of poems and novellas^[8]

References

1. "Cambronero de la Peña, Manuela (s. XIX)". MCNBiografias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 September 2020.
2. Cortés, Narciso Alonso (1947). El Teatro en Valladolid: Siglo XIX [Theater in Valladolid: 19th Century] (PDF) (in Spanish). Imprenta Castellana. p. 31. Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via COnnecting REpositories.
3. Pérez Lucas, Paula. Escritura y visibilidad femenina en Galicia: Revista Universal de este Reino (La Coruña, 1860–65) [Women's Writing and Visibility in Galicia: Universal Magazine of This Kingdom (A Coruña, 1860-65)] (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). King Juan Carlos University. pp. 4, 9, 14, 18. Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via COnnecting REpositories.
4. Espina, Gioconda (July–December 2005). "Suspender una boda por diferencias políticas no es novedad" [Suspending a Wedding Due to Political Differences is Nothing New] (PDF). Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer (in Spanish). Caracas. 10 (25): 180. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
5. Kirkpatrick, Susan (1989). Las Románticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain, 1835-1850. University of California Press. pp. 64, 83. ISBN 9780520063709. Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via Google Books.
6. Lledó Patiño, Mercedes (November 2012). "La visibilidad de las escritoras del S. XIX en el espacio público de la prensa" [The Visibility of 19th Century Women Writers in the Public Sphere of the Press]. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico (in Spanish). 18: 573. doi:10.5209/rev_ESMP.2012.v18.40936. ISSN 1134-1629. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
7. "Pensil del Bello Secso". El Nuevo Meteoro (in Spanish). 2 February 1845. p. 8. Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.
8. Hidalgo, Dionisio (1872). Diccionario general de bibliografía española [General Dictionary of Spanish Bibliography] (in Spanish). Vol. 5. Madrid: Las Escuelas Pias. p. 228. Retrieved 2 September 2020 – via Google Books.