Laura Mendez de Cuenca-poet, teacher, editor, writer, and
feminist-dared to bypass the cultural traditions of her time. In
the early 1870s, when conservative religious thought permeated all
aspects of Mexican life, she was one of very few women to gain
admission to an extraordinary constellation of male poets,
playwrights, and novelists, who were also the publicists and
statesmen of the time. She entered this world through her poetry,
intellect, curiosity, assertiveness, but her personal life was
fraught with tragedy: she had a child out of wedlock by poet Manuel
Acuna, who killed himself shortly thereafter. She later married
another poet, Agustin Fidencio Cuenca, and had seven other
children. All but two of her children died, as did Agustin. As a
penniless young widow facing social rejection, Laura became a
teacher and an important force in Mexico's burgeoning educational
reform program. She moved abroad-first to San Francisco, then St.
Louis, then Berlin. In these places where she was not known and
women had begun to move confidently in the public sphere, she could
walk freely, observe, mingle, make friends across many circles,
learn, think, and express her opinions. She wrote primarily for a
Mexican public and always returned to Mexico because it was her
country's future that she strove to create. Now, for the first time
in English, Milada Bazant shares with us the trajectory of a
leading Mexican thinker who applied the power of the pen to human
feeling, suffering, striving, and achievement.
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