Agripina Samper Agudelo
Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo (4 March 1833 — 22 April 1892) was a Colombian poet. Having a literary family, she received an education not easily accessible to women of her time and country. She wrote prose and poetry under the pseudonym "Pía-Rigán", an anagram of her given name.
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- Name
- Agripina Samper Agudelo
- Birth Name
- Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo
- Born
- 4 March 1833
- Birthplace
- Honda, Cundinamarca, New Granada
- Died
- 22 April 1892
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Movement
- Costumbrismo
- Nationality
- Colombia
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Spanish
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Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo (4 March 1833 — 22 April 1892) was a Colombian poet. Having a literary family, she received an education not easily accessible to women of her time and country. She wrote prose and poetry under the pseudonym "Pía-Rigán", an anagram of her given name.
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Agripina Samper Agudelo (1833–1892) was a Colombian poet and writer. Born in Honda, the poet died in Paris. Languages used include Spanish.
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• Name — Agripina Samper Agudelo • Pen Name — Pía Rigán • Birth Name — Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo • Born — 4 March 1833 • Birthplace — Honda, Cundinamarca, New Granada • Died — 22 April 1892 • Place of death — Paris, France • Language — Spanish • Period — 1853—1892 • Genre — Poetry • Movement — Costumbrismo • Children — Roberto Ancízar Samper Pablo Ancízar Samper Inés Ancízar Samper Jorge Ancízar Samper Manuel Ancízar Samper • Relatives — José María Samper Agudelo (brother) Miguel Samper Agudelo (brother) Soledad Acosta Kemble (sister-in-law) Bertilda Samper Acosta (niece)
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Born Agripina Casimira de los Dolores on 4 March 1833 in the city of Honda, then part of the Department of Cundinamarca, her parents were José María Samper Blanco and María Tomasa Agudelo y Tafur, she was their only daughter and seventh out of the eight children born to José María and María Tomasa. Two of her siblings stand out: José María, who married Soledad Acosta Kemble, both were writers and journalists in their own right; and Miguel, writer and prominent politician. On 4 July 1857 she married Manuel Ancízar Basterra, a scientist and writer, and out this marriage were born Roberto, Pablo, Inés, Jorge, and Manuel. When she widowed in 1882, she moved with her children to Paris, where she died on 22 April 1892.
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- 1.García Vásquez, Julio Cesar. Genealogía Colombiana. Interconexion Colombia.
- 2.Samper Ortega. Biblioteca Aldeana de Colombia. Editorial Minerva. 89. 96. 1935–1936. 316816714.
- 3.National University of Colombia. Anuario colombiano de historia social y de la cultura. 26–27. 76. 0120-2456.
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