Ursula Céspedes y Orellano de Escanaverino            Pulsar para Español    
author: Miguel Aguirre Botello

--born 1832 and died in 1874 at 42 years old--

A famous Cuban poet, Ursula was born in an estate close to Bayamo in 1832, and she died in Santa Isabel de Las Lajas, Cienfuegos, in 1874. She sometimes used the pseudonym, La Serrana.  She was the sister of José María Céspedes y Orellano, a "jurisconsulto" and she collaborated with her great grandmother, Antonia, on her poetry and in various newspapers in Cuba and Mexico and also in La Moda Elegante de Cádiz.  Her first book, titled Ecos de las Selvas (Bayamo, 1860), included a foreword by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.  This was followed by El Cementerio de La Habana (Habana, 1863), both of which earned her a great literary reputation.

Her parents were Don Manuel Céspedes y Barrero and Doña Barbara Orellano de Céspedes.

Learn more about the life and poetry of Ursula (from the website of Miguel Aguirre Botello)

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