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Carolina Freyre

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'''Carolina Freyre Arias''', also known as '''Carolina Freyre de Jaimes''' (January 4, 1844 – May 29, 1916), was a [[Peru|Peruvian]] poet, playwright, and novelist. She is considered a pioneer among [[Latin America|Latin American]] women [[Journalist|journalists]].

== Early life ==
Freyre was born in 1844 in [[Tacna]], a city in southern [[Peru]]. She was one of six children born to Juana Arias and Andrés Freyre Fernández. Her father was the director of several newspapers and the owner of a [[Printer (publishing)|printing house]].<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

She studied at the Colegio Nacional de Educandas de Tacna, a school where young women learned to become teachers, and at a very young age she became a math teacher.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

Her writing career also began very early; she published her first verses of poetry at only 14 years of age, in one of her father's newspapers.<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== Career ==
[[File:Veladas literarias de Lima 1876-1877, v.1 - Juana Manuela Gorriti.pdf|alt=Veladas Literarias de Lima|thumb|Carolina Freyre was active in Lima's ''veladas literarias'' (literary soirees) in the 1870s.]]
Freyre began contributing to various publications including ''La Bella Taceña'' and ''La América'',<ref name=":1" /> writing on social issues in particular. In 1871 she began writing for ''El Correo de Lima'', publishing articles on "The Scientific Spirit of the Century," "Women's Education," etc. The following year, she began contributing opinion pieces to the newspaper ''La Prensa'', as well as historical essays.<ref name=":0" />

She went on to found a new publication, ''Cofradía Lírica'', in collaboration with other young writers. It was later known as ''Bohemia Tacneña''.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

Having settled in [[Lima]], Freyre became part of the city's intellectual social scene established in the 1870s, joining a group of women writers led by [[Teresa González de Fanning]] from [[Department of Ancash|Ancash]], [[Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera|Mercedes Cabello]] from [[Moquegua]], and [[Clorinda Matto de Turner|Clorinda Matto]] from [[Cusco]]​.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The group was established through a variety of cultural spaces, particularly the literary soirees held in the home of the [[Argentina|Argentine]] writer [[Juana Manuela Gorriti]]. In addition to these women, Freyre befriended the Peruvian intellectual [[Ricardo Palma]], whom she may have met at one of Gorriti's soirees.

On May 23, 1874, along with Gorriti, she launched the first edition of ''El Álbum'', described as "a weekly magazine for the fair sex." ''El Álbum'' was the first women's magazine led by women themselves in Peru. Freyre directed the magazine alongside Gorriti for the first 16 issues, after which she assumed full responsibility for the publication. She also transferred her long-running column "Revista de Lima," which had previously appeared in the newspaper ''La Patria'', to ''El Álbum''. Beyond her work on this magazine, she also published frequently in the magazine ''La Alborada'', which Gorriti founded with [[Numa Pompilio Llona]] in 1875.<ref name=":2" />

Freyre frequently advocated for [[women's rights]] in her work, as part of Peru's early [[Feminism|feminist]] movement,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> although her calls for women's education did not extend to fully liberating women from the domestic sphere.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 3, expected 1)</ref>

== Personal life ==
Carolina Freyre was married to the [[Bolivia|Bolivian]] writer Julio Lucas Jaimes, nicknamed "Brocha Gorda," with whom she had six children: Julio, Ricardo, Federico, María Carolina, Julia Rosa, and Raúl. Her second son, [[Ricardo Jaimes Freyre]], became a well-known poet.<ref name=":0" />

She lived throughout her life in Tacna, Lima, [[Sucre]],<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== Death and legacy ==
Freyre died in 1916, in Buenos Aires.<ref name=":0" /> A street in her hometown of Tacna was named in her honor.<ref></ref>

== Selected works ==

=== Poetry ===

* ''La bella tacneña'', 1860
* ''Amigo Federico'', 1887

=== Novel ===

* ''El regalo de boda'', 1887

=== Theater ===

* ''María de Bellido'', 1877
* ''Blanca de Silva'', 1879
* ''Pizarro''

== References ==
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[[Category:1844 births]]
[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:Peruvian women writers]]
[[Category:Peruvian women poets]]
[[Category:Peruvian journalists]]
[[Category:Women journalists]]
[[Category:Peruvian emigrants to Argentina]]
[[Category:People from Tacna]]


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