Rita Unamunsaga (Unamunzaga)

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: White

Events:

1791  -  Lima  -  Unknown  -  In Lima, where she was from, she subscribed to El Mercurio Peruano.

Connections:

Newspaper, Mercurio Peruano
Tertulia, Orrantia

Biography:
From Lima, she was a friend of Manuela de Orrantia and Isabel de Orbea who were “collaborators” of the founders of El Mercurio Peruano. She attended Orrantia’s tertulias (Martín, 72-75.)

She subscribed to El Mercurio Peruano in 1791. (Clément, 129)

Related to Juan Domingo Unamunsaga?

References:

Clément, Jean-Pierre (1979) Indices del Mercurio Peruano, 1790-1795
Martín, Luis (1983) Daughters of the Conquistadores: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru