Juana Manuela Lazo de Eléspuro

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: White

Biographical details

Born in Tacna, in 1819, she was educated in Lima by her father, the lawyer Benito Lazo who founded the Supreme Court of Peru. She married Norberto Eléspuro, and attended Gorriti’s tertulias. She wrote a comic play, Las muchachas engreías and Que nadie lo sepa. She wrote on religious and social themes in the press, all with a generous dose of irony about the excesses of her time. She wrote frankly, denouncing political power and the custom of repressing women’s intellectual development. She died in 1905. (Balta, 47-51)

Life Events

Born	1819	She was born in Tacna.
Died	1905

References

Balta Campbell, Aída, (1998), Presencia de la mujer en el periodismo escrito peruano (1821-1960)

Publications

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