Manuela de Tristán

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: White

Biographical details

Born around 1790, she married Domingo Tristán, governor of Ayacucho and uncle of Flora Tristán. She is said to have had an American lover. She hosted meetings of “the most distinguished men” in her house. Flora Tristán mentions meeting President Orbegoso, General Miller (English) and Colonel Soigne (French) there. “I met only two women there: the rest shunned my aunt’s society because they considered her conduct so improper. Evenings at her house passed in an agreeable manner: she would sing to us, in Italian, the finest arias from Rossini’s operas, and when she was tired everybody would talk politics. Like all the women in Lima, my aunt is very interested in politics, and in her society I was able to form an opinion of the men at the head of the government. Orbegoso and the officers around him seemed complete nonentities to me.” (Tristán, 254-55; 259-60.)

Life Events

Born	1790	She was possibly born in 1790.
Other	1834	She hosted tertulias in Lima in 1834.

References

Jean Hawkes, (1986), Peregrinations of a Pariah

Davies, Catherine, Brewster, Claire and Owen, Hilary, (2006), South American Independence. Gender, Politics, Text

Publications
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