Marquesa de San Roman

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: White

Biographical details

Possibly born in Spain, in 1840 she was described by Frances Calderón de la Barca: “[She] is an old lady who has travelled a great deal in Europe, and is very distinguished for talents and information. She has the Grand Cross of Maria Louisa of Spain, is of a noble Venetian family, and aunt to the Duke of Canizzaro. Her dress was a very rich black Genoa velvet, black blond mantilla, and a very splendid parure of diamonds. She seems in exceedingly delicate health. She and her contemporaries are fast fading away, the last record of the days of Viceroyalty. In their place a new race have started up, whose manners and appearance have little of the vieille cour about them; chiefly, it is said, wives of military men, sprung from the hotbeds of the revolutions, ignorant and full of pretensions, as parvenus who have risen by chance and not by merit must be.” (Calderón de la Barca, 95.)

Life Events

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1840

She was described as elderly and frail.

References

Calderón de la Barca, Frances, (1982), Life in Mexico

Publications

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Links

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Gendering Latin American Independence

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