An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence

Juana Manuela Lazo de Eléspuro

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Juana Manuela Lazo

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: White

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Biography:
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)

References:

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