Enriqueta Lozano
Spanish writer, editor (1829-1895)
Enriqueta Lozano y Velázquez de Vilchez (Granada, 18 August 1829/30 – Granada, 5 May 1895) was a Spanish writer, novelist, poet, dramatic author, and publicist of the late Romanticism period, with traditional features. Deeply religious, Lozano's writing stemmed from a conservative, traditional, moralizing, and sensibility point of view. Writing more than two hundred works, she published as "Enriqueta Lozano" before marriage and as "Enriqueta Lozano de Vilchez" afterward.
Early life and education
Enriqueta Lozano y Velázquez was born on 18 August 1829 in Granada, Spain. She was the daughter of Infantry Lieutenant Francisco de Paula Lozano and María Rosario Velázquez. Enriqueta's mother died when the child was six years old, and after her father's remarriage, the stepmother when Enriqueta was eight. Her father was disabled by war wounds in 1836. At the age of seven, she entered the Beguinage of Santo Domingo in Granada, the center where the Empress Eugénie de Montijo was educated, where the child learned to read, write, and do domestic work. Until she was thirteen, she received classes from a private teacher who taught her Grammar, Geography, History, Arithmetic and Natural Sciences.
Career
In 1846, she published her first poem entitled "In my mother's grave" in the newspaper El Capricho.
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