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

Marquesa de San Roman

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: White

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Biography:
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.)

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