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

María Josefa Ezcurra y Ezcurra.

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: White

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Biography:
She was born in Buenos Aires, on 26 November 1785, the sister of Encarnación Ezcurra de Rosas. She married her Spanish cousin, Juan Esteban de Ezcurra. He returned to Spain when the wars of independence began and died there. She accompanied Manuela Rosas to many fiestas and became involved in political intrigues after the death of her sister Encarnación in 1838. She died on 6 September 1856. (Sosa de Newton, 218)

She took advantage of the royalist ideology of her husband, as it gave her the freedom to travel North, following her lover, Manuel Belgrano. She was later a supporter of Rosas (her brother-in-law) and in the early 1840s accused Mariquita Sánchez of being the editor of El Grito, the Montevideo opposition newspaper. (Sáenz Quesada, 52, 192)

References:

Sáenz Quesada, María (1996) Mariquita Sánchez, Vida política y sentimental
Sosa de Newton, Lily (1986) Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas
Verlichak, Carmen (1999) María Josefa Ezcurra: El amor prohibido de Belgrano