Isabel Prieto de Landázuri

Isabel Prieto de Landázuri
Born
Isabel Ángela Prieto González Bango

(1833-03-01)1 March 1833
Alcázar de San Juan, Spain
Died28 September 1876(1876-09-28) (aged 43)
Hamburg, Germany
Occupation(s)Poet, dramatist
Notable workLos dos son peores
SpousePedro Landázuri Diez

Isabel Ángela Prieto González Bango (1 March 1833 – 28 September 1876), better known as Isabel Prieto de Landázuri, was a Spanish poet and dramatist, considered "one of the first women to enter the literary canon of Mexico in the 19th century," since this country was where she created most of her literary legacy.[1]

Biography

There are disagreements regarding the birthplace of Isabel Prieto de Landázari; although most consider that she was born in Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, Spain, in 1833, some writers like the Spanish Julio Cejador y Frauca [es] determined that she was actually born in Mexico City. There are yet other sources that say that she was born in 1828 in Spanish territory.[2] She was the daughter of the Panamanian Sotero Prieto Olasagarre (at that time, Panama was under Spanish rule) and the Spaniard Isabel González Bango de la Puebla, and she was the oldest of their eleven children.

At age four, Prieto's family moved to Mexico, where she devoted herself to studying. There she learned several languages that allowed her to perform as a translator of notable literary works.[2] Later, she traveled to Guadalajara, Jalisco, where she composed most of her own works.[3] It is known that she collaborated with the Mexico-based French writer Alfredo Bablot [es] on the newspaper El Federalista.[4] In 1864, before the French Intervention in Mexico, she moved to San Francisco, California.[5] A year later, in 1865, she returned to Mexico and married her cousin Pedro Landázuri Diez,[1] a notable politician of that era, and moved to the Tacubaya neighborhood in Mexico City.

Endowed with prodigious and very easy memory, she conceived and shaped her compositions without the help of the pen, and dictated them to her husband later. It can be said, in spite of the great extent of most of them, that they are all true improvisations.[6]

She created a total of fourteen dramatic works, most notably Las dos flores, Los dos son peores, Oro y oropel, La escuela de las cuñadas, Duende y serafín, Abnegación, El Ángel del hogar, Una noche de Carnaval, Soñar despierto, and Un lirio entre zarzas.

In 1874, her husband assumed the position of consul of Mexico in Hamburg, so Isabel moved with him and their son Jorge (their daughter Blanca became ill and died in Veracruz while waiting for the ship that would take them to Hamburg; their third child was born in 1875, once they were already in Germany) to German territory.

She died in 1876 from a cerebral infarction.[7]

José María Vigil read a speech entitled "La Sra. doña Isabel Prieto de Landázuri," a biographical and literary study of the author, before the Mexican Academy in 1882.[8][9] Vigil himself compiled her poetic works in a publication by Ireneo Paz.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b Ramírez de Olivares, Alicia V.; Romero Luna, Francisco Javier (9 February 2009). "Ni liberales ni conservadores, el justo medio de Isabel Prieto en 'Los dos son peores'" [Neither Liberals Nor Conservatives: the True Medium of Isabel Prieto in 'Los dos son peores']. Ide@s CONCYTEG (in Spanish). 4 (44): 105–116. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via docplayer.es.
  2. ^ a b "Prieto de Landázuri, Isabel (ca. 1828–1876)". MCNbiografias (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. ^ Riva Palacio, Vicente (2006). "Isabel Prieto de Landázuri: Biografía". El parnaso mexicano [The Mexican Parnassus] (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. p. 301. ISBN 9789706841483. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Celis de la Cruz, Martha (2003). Publicaciones periódicas mexicanas del siglo XIX, 1856–1876 [Mexican Periodical Publications of the 19th Century, 1856–1876] (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. p. 300. ISBN 9789703203307. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Riva Palacio, Vicente (2006). "Isabel Prieto de Landázuri: Biografía". El parnaso mexicano [The Mexican Parnassus] (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. p. 303. ISBN 9789706841483. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Riva Palacio, Vicente (2006). "Isabel Prieto de Landázuri: Biografía". El parnaso mexicano [The Mexican Parnassus] (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. p. 305. ISBN 9789706841483. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Prieto de Castro, Carlos. "Isabel Prieto de Landázuri (hermana de mi bisabuelo)" [Isabel Prieto de Landázuri (Sister of My Great-Grandfather)] (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  8. ^ Boletín de la Biblioteca Nacional, Volumes 1-6 (in Spanish). National Library of Mexico. 1904. p. 634. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Vigil, José María (1975). "La Sra. doña Isabel Prieto de Landázuri". Memorias de la Academia Mexicana, Volume 2 (in Spanish). Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. pp. 140–245. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Vigil, José María (1883). Paz, Ireneo (ed.). Obras poéticas de la Señora Doña Isabel Prieto de Landázuri (in Spanish). Imprenta y Litografía de Irineo Paz. Retrieved 12 August 2018 – via archive.org.