Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez de | Beth Miller (essay date 1983)
Beth Miller (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Miller, Beth. “Gertrude the Great: Avellaneda, Nineteenth-Century Feminist.” In Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols, edited by Beth Miller, pp. 201-14. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
[In the following essay, Miller tracks Avellaneda's development as a feminist and public figure throughout her life and as demonstrated by her writings. Miller also notes historical connections between Avellaneda's feminism and the concurrent feminist movement of the United States.]
When I first began working on Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in 1972, I imagined that she must have been a visible and controversial “personality” in her time, somewhat like Gabriela Mistral or Norman Mailer in theirs. Actually, Avellaneda seems to have been less self-conscious a performer than these twentieth-century counterparts although she was no less aware of antagonistic audiences and was often...
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