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

Author: Sor Tadea de San Joaquín (García de la Huerta)

Type of publication: Poem

Title: Romance

Year of publication: 1784

Place created: Santiago de Chile

Language: Spanish

Location of text: Reproduced in Juan Uribe Echevarría, "El Romance de Sor Tadea de San Joaquín sobre la inundación que hizo el río Mapocho en 1783", Apartado de la Revista Mapocho, Organo de la Extensión Cultural, No.3, octubre de 1963, pp.159-198. in Biblioteca Nacional de Chile

Abstract: Her account of a flood in July 1783 that flooded the San Rafael Convent. The nuns' cells were flooded, but all managed to escape. Includes explanatory notes on the text, and is preceded by a discussion of the poem and possible influences on Sor Tadea.

Texts written by Sor Tadea de San Joaquín (García de la Huerta):
1784 - Romance
1784 - Romance