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Josefa Melgar

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Mestizo/a

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The sister of Mariano Melgar, she was from Arequipa. She burned most of Melgar’s poems on the instructions of her confessor who considered them to be of little use as they were sensual and sceptic (Tamayo Vargas, 489).

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Tamayo Vargas, Agusto, (), Literatura peruana


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