Dolores Montilla del Delpech

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Unknown

Biographical details

From Venezuela, she was the sister of Ignacia Montilla. Letters from the Montillas to Carmen Palacios Obelmejías and Josefa Palacios de Vega indicate a refusal to cooperate in the Independence movement. (Knaster, 478.)

In 1832, she published a 30-page pamphlet, 'Al público. La publicación del documento que inserto a continuación es un tributo de respeto a mis conciudadanos. A continuación en él se refiere con exactitud y verdad un hecho que ha tenido lugar hace poco entre mi hijo Luis Delpech y el Sr. Angel Quintero', published in Caracas, by Imprenta Valentín Espinal. The only copy is in Harvard Library.

Same person as Dolores Montilla de Cazado? Related to Tomás Montilla and Juana Padrón de Montilla?

Life Events

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References

Knaster, Meri, (1977), Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times

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