Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez de - Nina M. Scott (essay date 1993)
Nina M. Scott (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Scott, Nina M. Introduction to Sab and Autobiography, pp. xi-xxvii. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
[In the following essay, which introduces Scott's translations of Avellaneda's work, Scott provides an overview of Avellaneda's life and pertinent background information on Sab.]
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was born in Puerto Príncipe (today Camagüey), a provincial capital in central Cuba, in March 1814, the eldest child and only daughter of Manuel Gómez de Avellaneda and Francisca de Arteaga y Betancourt. Her father was of aristocratic Spanish lineage, an officer in the Spanish navy in charge of that area of the island (Cuba remained a Spanish colony until 1898). While stationed in Puerto Príncipe, he had met and married Doña Francisca, a wealthy Creole from a socially prominent family,1 Gertrudis was the first of five children of this marriage, of whom...
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