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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Gender:Female
Ethnic origen: White
Events:
| 1819 | - | San Juan | - | Not applicable | - | She was born in San Juan on 26 August 1819. |
| 1846 | - | Chile | - | Unknown | - | Her first husband, Domingo de Castro y Calvo died. |
| 1848 | - | Chile | - | Unknown | - | She married Domingo Faustino Sarmiento on 19 May 1848. |
| 1848 | - | Yungay | - | Unknown | - | She lived here from around 1848 to 1857. |
| 1857 | - | Buenos Aires | - | Unknown | - | She moved to Buenos Aires lived there from 1857 until 1890. |
| 1890 | - | Buenos Aires | - | Unknown | - | She died in Buenos Aires on 6 October 1890. |
Connections:
Argentine exiles in ChileBiography:
She was born in San Juan on 26 August 1819, and went to live with her aunt in Chile when she was very young. The aunt died and Martínez Pastoriza married her uncle by marriage, Domingo de Castro y Calvo, a rich hacendado. They had a son, Domingo Fidel. Castro y Calvo died in 1846. She married Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in Chile on 19 May 1848. They and Sarmiento's daughter from his first marriage, lived in Yungay in a property she inherited. In 1857, after many separations when Sarmiento was campaigning against Rosas, she moved to Buenos Aires. The marriage broke down in 1862 after Sarmiento's affair with Aurelia Vélez. Sarmiento disinherited her on the grounds that she did not need his money, but she managed to obtain half of his wealth. She died in Buenos Aires on 6 October 1890. (Sosa de Newton, 394)
References:
Sosa de Newton, Lily (1986) Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas