Soledad Acosta
Soledad Acosta Kemble de Samper (5 May 1833 — 17 March 1913)[1] was a 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[1] to Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán, and Caroline Kemble Rowe in Bogotá. Her father was a native of Guaduas the son of Spanish immigrants, he was a scientist, diplomat and general; her mother, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, was the daughter of Gideon Kemble, an American Scotsman and Collector of the Port of Kingston, and his wife Tomasa (née Rowe).[5][6] On 5 May 1855 she married 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).[7]
Selected works
- Acosta, Soledad (1869) (in Spanish). Novelas y Cuadros de la Vida Suramericana [Novels and Portraits of South American Life]. Ghent, Belgium: Eugene Vanderhaeghen. ISBN 9789871136452. OCLC 7568301. http://books.google.com/books?id=ErpbAAAAQAAJ.
- Acosta, Soledad (1886) (in Spanish). Los Piratas En Cartagena [Pirates In Cartagena]. Bogotá, Colombia: La Luz. OCLC 228041823. http://books.google.com/books?id=ztU8AAAAYAAJ.
- Acosta, Samper (1888) [1876] (in Spanish). Una Holandesa En America [A Dutch Woman In America]. Willemstad, Curaçao: A. Betancourt. OCLC 15266567. http://books.google.com/books?id=4-Uw-4QQLOcC.
- Acosta, Soledad (1895) (in Spanish). La Mujer En La Sociedad Moderna [The Woman In Modern Society]. Paris, France: Garnier. OCLC 1547187. http://books.google.com/books?id=Bz2YH6pylJoC.
- Acosta, Soledad (1901) (in Spanish). 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]. Bogotá, Colombia: Camacho Roldán & Tamayo. OCLC 7706472. http://books.google.com/books?id=Z5sCAAAAYAAJ.
References
- ^ a b Samper, Santiago. Melo González, Jorge Orlando. ed (in Spanish). Gran Enciclopedia de Colombia del Círculo de Lectores, tomo de biografías [Great Encyclopaedia of Colombia, Volume of Biographies]. Bogotá: Luis Ángel Arango Library. http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/biografias/acossole.htm. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ^ Pratt, Mary Louise (1995). "Soledad Acosta de Samper". In Meyer, Doris. Rereading the Spanish American essay: translations of 19th and 20th century women's essays. The Texas Pan American series. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 67–76. ISBN 9780292751828. OCLC 32015586. http://books.google.com/books?id=AK-F_apKm1IC&pg=PA67. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ^ Burke, Janet; Humphrey, Ted (2007). "Soledad Acosta de Samper". Nineteenth-century nation building and the Latin American intellectual tradition. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. ISBN 9780872208377. OCLC 72161781. http://books.google.com/books?id=_aDh_eVx8FgC&pg=PA268. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ^ Bassnett, Susan (1990). "9. One hundred years of unread writing: Soledad Acosta, Elisa Mujica and Marvel Moreno". Knives and angels: women writers in Latin America. London: Zed Books. pp. 132–137. ISBN 9780862328757. OCLC 9780862328757. http://books.google.com/books?id=GwujbDcmcvMC&pg=PA132. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
- ^ Due to Phonetic transcription, Mrs. Kemble's maiden name has been changed to "Rou" in many Spanish language sources.
- ^ Stout, Kemble (1992). Genealogy of the Kemble (Kimble) family in America (Genealogy book). Pullman, WA. p. 356. OCLC 27175549.
- ^ Acosta, Soledad (August 2004). "Cronología [Chronology]". In Ordóñez Vila, Montserrat (in Spanish). Novelas y cuadros de la vida suramericana [Novels and Portraits of South American Life]. Chronology by María Victoria González. Bogotá. pp. 405–406. ISBN 9789586837064. OCLC 254691569. http://books.google.com/books?id=VJCcINGg5IQC&pg=PA403. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
External links
- Alzate, Carolina; Ordóñez, Montserrat (2005) (in Spanish). Soledad Acosta de Samper: escritura, género y nación en el siglo XIX [Soledad Acosta de Samper: Writing, Genre, and Nation in the 19th Century]. Madrid: Iberoamericana. ISBN 9788484890973. OCLC 63263664.