Mariana Cox Méndez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cox and the second or maternal family name is Méndez.

Mariana Cox-Stuven
Born	Mariana Cox Méndez 1871 Punta Arenas, Chile
Died	1914 (aged 42–43) Paris
Pen name	Shade Oliver Brand
Language	Spanish
Spouse	Juan Stuven González
Children	1

Mariana Cox Méndez (also, Mariana Cox-Stuven; pseudonyms, Shade and Oliver Brand;[1] 1871 – September 8, 1914) was a Chilean writer, feminist, essayist and novelist. In addition to novels and short stories, she wrote pieces in the newspaper El Mercurio, La Union, and La Nación.

Cox was born in Punta Arenas. She was condemned and criticized by Chilean society because she wrote for the media. Her work can be framed within the so-called feminismo aristocrático, which includes her contemporaries such as Inés Echeverría Bello, María Mercedes Vial, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández de García Huidobro, and Ximena Morla Lynch. Her second marriage was to Juan Stuven González. She had a son, Ivan.[2] She died in Paris.

Selected works

• Un remordimiento: (recuerdos de juventud), 1909
• La vida íntima de Marie Goetz, 1909

References

1. González-Vergara, Ruth (1993). Nuestras escritoras chilenas: una historia por descifrar (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Edición Hispano-Chilena. p. 274.
2. Rafide, Matías (1959). Literatura chilena: apuntes elementales (in Spanish). s. n. p. 255.