Nicolasa Montt

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Montt, the second or maternal family name is Barros, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Marambio.

Nicolasa Montt
Born	Nicolassa Montt Barros 1857 Freirina, Chile
Died	1924
Occupation	poet translator
Spouse	Nicolás Marambio
Children	7
Relatives	Montt family

Nicolasa Montt (née, Nicolasa Montt Barros; after marriage, Nicolasa Montt de Marambio; Freirina, 1857–1924) was a Chilean poet who published in regional newspapers and books. She also translated from French works by well-known French writers.[1][2][3][4] Along with the Atacama writer Mercedes Marín del Solar and the Copapina Rosario Orrego, Montt is considered one of the pioneers in the field of women's poetry and writing in Chile.[5][6][7]

Biography

Hailing from the Montt family, her parents were José Antonio Montt and Beatriz Barros.[8]

She married Nicolás Marambio with whom she had seven children, among them, the lawyer Nicolás Marambio Montt (1886–1936), who became a deputy and senator of Chile.[9]

Montt made his debut in literature probably between 1891 and 1901, a period in which texts by Mercedes Belzú de Dorado, Rosa Araneda, Victoria Sainte-Marie, Sara María García de Arias, Graciela Sotomayor, Laura Bustos, and Cristina Otaegui, among others, were published.[10] Her work was characterized by the use of a personal language mainly due to the "absence of women from the cultural space due to the prevailing patriarchalism and the conservatism of Chilean political and social institutions" present at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.[11][12][13]

She wrote for several journalistic media.[12][14] As a translator, she dealt mainly with French texts by Enrique Conscience[3] and Nanine Sauvestre, among others.

Selected works

• 1897 - Rejina: poema dedicado a su hija Julia Elisa en el día de su cumple-años: agosto 24 de 1894
• 1902 - Carlota i Luisita o las dos hermanas : poema, dedicado a su querida hijita Berta Carmela
• 1906 - Páginas íntimas

References

1. Ávalos Ansieta, Benigno (1977). Panorama espiritual de una provincia, tercera región (in Spanish). Editorial de Norte.
2. Piña, Benjamín Rojas; Villarroel, Patricia Pinto; Lértora, Patricia Rubio de (1994). Escritoras chilenas: v. Críticas literarias : estudio, antología y bibliografía (in Spanish). Editorial Cuarto Propio. ISBN 978-956-260-120-7.
3. González-Vergara, Ruth (2011). Teresa Wilms Montt: Un canto de libertad (in Spanish). DEBOLSILLO. ISBN 978-956-325-051-0.
4. Toribio Medina, José (1923). La literatura femenina en Chile (notas bibliográficas y en parte críticas) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria.
5. Ávalos Ansieta, Benigno (6 November 1998). "Rosario Orrego pionera de la poesía femenina" (PDF) (in Spanish). Chañarcillo.
6. Álvarez G., Oriel (24 July 1994). Chañarcillo (ed.). "Rosario Orrego, pionera poetisa copiapina" (PDF) (in Spanish).
7. Caballero Iglesias, Tussel (26 May 1996). "Atacama en dos batallas navales del Pacífico" (PDF) (in Spanish). Atacama. pp. 2–3.
8. "Nicolasa Montt Barros (1857-1924)" (in Spanish). Memoria Chilena.
9. "Nicolás Marambio Montt". Reseña Biográfica Parlamentaria – via Library of National Congress of Chile.
10. Vaïsse, Emilio (1961). Estudios críticos de literatura chilena: Homenaje de la Biblioteca nacional al autor en el centenario de su nacimiento, 1860-1960 (in Spanish). Ediciones de la Biblioteca Nacional.
11. Nómez, Naín (2000). Antología crítica de la Poesía Chilena (in Spanish). Lom Ediciones. ISBN 979-956-736-984-2.
12. Guerín de Elgueta, Sara (1928). Actividades femeninas en Chile: obra publicada con motivo del cincuentenario del decreto que concedió a la mujer chilena el derecho de validar sus exámenes secundarios: datos hasta diciembre de 1927 (in Spanish). La Ilustración.
13. González-Vergara, Ruth (1993). Nuestras escritoras chilenas: una historia por descifrar (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Edición Hispano-Chilena.
14. Heise G., Julio (1947). Historia de Chile: El período parlamentario 1861-1925 (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello.