Amelia Solar de Claro

Amelia Solar de Claro
B&W oval portrait of a woman with hair in an up-do, wearing a pale-colored dress.
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BornMaria Amelia de las Mercedes Solar
October 11, 1836 -
DiedNovember 21, 1915
OccupationWriter
LanguageSpanish
NationalityChile
Genre
  • poems
  • plays
  • essays
Notable worksMaría Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso
SpouseJosé Luis Claro y Cruz
Children4

Amelia Solar de Claro (October 11, 1836 - November 21, 1915) was a Chilean poet, playwright, and essayist.[1][2][3]

Biography

Maria Amelia de las Mercedes Solar was the daughter of José María del Solar Marín and Mercedes Marín del Solar, the first Chilean poet and intellectual.[1]

She married José Luis Claro y Cruz, the promoter and one of the founders of the Cuerpo de Bomberos de Santiago,[4][5] with whom she had four children, among them the jurist Luis Claro Solar[6] and the deputy Raúl Claro Solar.[7]

She is recognized for having written and published one of the first dramatic texts of Chilean children's literature: María Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso (María Cinderella: comedy in 3 acts and verse), a comic work that was performed in Valparaíso in 1884.[8][9][10] Together with other writers such as Delfina María Hidalgo or Quiteria Varas Marín, Solar published some of the first texts assigned to Chilean women's poetry at the end of the 19th century.[11]

Selected works

  • Haroldo: episodio del siglo XV, tomado del francés (Santiago: Imprenta "Victoria", 1887). (text)
  • María Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso (Santiago: Establecimiento Poligráfico Roma, 1898; Impr, i Libr. Excelsior, 1917). (text)
  • Recuerdos (Santiago: Imp. Universitaria, 1914). (text)
  • Poesías de la Sra. Amelia Solar de Claro (Santiago: Impr. y Encuadernación Antigua Inglesa, 1916). (text)

References

  1. ^ a b Szmulewicz, Efraín (1984). Diccionario de la literatura chilena (in Spanish). Editorial Andrés Bello. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  2. ^ Alvarado, Felícitas Klimpel (1962). La mujer chilena: el aporte femenino al progreso de Chile, 1910-1960 (in Spanish). Editorial Andrés Bello. p. 304. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  3. ^ Roark, Carolyn Dianne (2002). Tesis presentada como requisitos para optar al grado de Doctor of Philosophy (PDF) (Thesis). Faculty of the Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin - Socializing the Audience: Culture, Nation-Building, and Pedagogy in Chile’s Teatro Infantil.
  4. ^ "Cuerpo de Bomberos de Santiago - Personajes Destacados". cbs.cl (in Spanish). 1 April 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 26 September 2023 – via web.archive.org.
  5. ^ "CMN - Portada". monumentos.cl (in Spanish). 21 April 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 26 September 2023 – via web.archive.org.
  6. ^ "Personajes Ilustres". La Heroica (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Raúl Claro Solar - Reseñas Biográficas Parlamentarias". historiapolitica.bcn.cl (in Spanish). 21 February 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 26 September 2023 – via web.archive.org.
  8. ^ Muñoz, Manuel Peña (1982). Historia de la literatura infantil chilena (in Spanish). Andres Bello. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  9. ^ "María Cenicienta (1884)". www.memoriachilena.cl. Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Los primeros textos de literatura infantil". www.memoriachilena.cl. Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  11. ^ Miranda, Marta Elba (1940). Mujeres chilenas (in Spanish). Nascimento. Retrieved 26 September 2023.