Carolina Coronado
Carolina Coronado | |
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Portrait of Carolina Coronado (c.1855), by Federico de Madrazo (Museo del Prado, Madrid). | |
| Born | Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada 12 December 1820 |
| Died | 15 January 1911 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Poet, Novelist, Playwright |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Genre | Romanticism |
| Spouse | Horatio Justus Perry |
| Partner | Alberto |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Ramón Gómez de la Serna |
Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada (12 December 1820 – 15 January 1911) was a Spanish writer, famous for her poetry, considered the equivalent of contemporary Romantic authors like Rosalía de Castro. As one of the most well-known poets writing in mid-19th-century Spain, she also played a diplomatic role (she was married to Horatio Perry, the American Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Madrid.) She both negotiated with the Spanish royal family in private and, through a series of widely published poems, promoted the aims of the Lincoln administration, especially abolition of slavery.