C. 1966 Epistolario, Juana Borrero, 2 Volumes, Biblioteca de Autores Cubanos

Description: Biblioteca de Autores Cubanos: Epistolario by Juana Borrero, 2 Volumes, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Havana, n.d., c. 1966, 462pp, 428pp, hardcover, 6 x 9.5", 8vo Poor condition/as is. Wear and soiling to boards. Tips are bumped. Titles in gilt on front boards and spines. Front board and spine of volume I are detached from binding, but still connected to rear board. Title pages on green paper with black ink. No known marginalia. Toning and age-staining throughout textblocks. Illustrations at rear of both textblocks. Please see photos and ask any questions prior to purchase. Juana Borrero (May 18, 1877 - March 9, 1896) was a Cuban painter and poet. She was a native of the Santos Suarez neighborhood of Havana and the daughter of the writer and patriot Esteban Borrero Echevarria. Borrero began painting when she was five, wrote her first poem at seven, and spoke multiple languages by the time she was ten. The poet Julian de Casal was a family friend and became her literary mentor. In 1887, she entered the San Alejandro Arts Academy; by 1891, her poems were being published in magazines around Cuba, including La Habana Elegante, one of the leading periodicals of the time. She died of tuberculosis in Key West, Florida, at the age of eighteen. She was buried in Key West, in a tomb belonging to friends of her family. Her gravesite was unidentified until a 1792 study by the Cuban Society of Archaeology and Ethnology in Exile. Her body was exhumed and transferred to her own tomb, with the inscription "Glory of Cuba" on her tombstone. FORN-TUB-0054-BB-2408-JC1139

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