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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

1814 - 1873

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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (March 23, 1814 – February 1, 1873) was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Born in Puerto Príncipe, now Camagüey, she lived in Cuba until she was 22. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where she started writing as La Peregrina (The Pilgrim) and lived there until 1859, when she moved back to Cuba with her second husband until his death in 1863, after which she moved back to Spain. She died in Madrid in 1873 from diabetes at the age of 58. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda is the 3,851st most popular writer (up from 3,948th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 91st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Cuban Writer.

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Among writers, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 3,851 out of 7,302. Before her are Dominique Fernandez, Borisav Stanković, Al-Nabigha, Paul Johnson, Sunthorn Phu, and Wang Changling. After her are Mykola Bazhan, Txillardegi, Lev Nussimbaum, Konstantin Fedin, Greg Bear, and Natalya Gorbanevskaya.

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Among people born in 1814, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 53. Before her are Hervé Faye, Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Auguste Clésinger, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Felix Lichnowsky, and Johann Georg Halske. After her are Girolamo de Rada, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Ludwig Schläfli, Edmond Frémy, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, and Adolph Tidemand. Among people deceased in 1873, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 53. Before her are Spyridon Trikoupis, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Johann Jakob Kaup, Louis Le Chatelier, Auguste Couder, and Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella. After her are Odilon Barrot, Paweł Strzelecki, Eugène Flachat, Gheorghe Bibescu, Francis Marrash, and Charles Dupin.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 89 out of 300. Before her are Pablo Milanés (1943), Ninón Sevilla (1929), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Félix Savón (1967), Alberto Bayo (1892), and Benny Moré (1919). After her are Chelo Alonso (1933), Carlos Prío Socarrás (1903), Dave Lombardo (1965), Manuel Díaz (1874), Julio Antonio Mella (1903), and Dulce María Loynaz (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda ranks 10. Before her are Nicolás Guillén (1902), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950). After her are Dulce María Loynaz (1902), José María Heredia y Heredia (1803), Alina Fernández (1956), Daína Chaviano (1957), Virgilio Piñera (1912), and José Carlos Somoza (1959).

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