Agripina Samper Agudelo

Agripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo[1] (4 March 1833 — 22 April 1892)[2] 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. Her work remained unpublished during her lifetime and was only anthologized and published posthumously.

Agripina Samper Agudelo
BornAgripina Casimira de los Dolores Samper Agudelo
(1833-03-04)4 March 1833
Honda, Cundinamarca,
New Granada
Died22 April 1892(1892-04-22) (aged 59)
Paris, France
Pen namePía Rigán
LanguageSpanish
NationalityColombian
Period1853—1892
GenrePoetry
Literary movementCostumbrismo
Spouse
Manuel Ancízar Basterra
(
m. 1857⁠–⁠1882)
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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This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Samper and the second or maternal family name is Agudelo.

Personal life

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,[2] she was their only daughter and seventh out of the eight children born to José María and María Tomasa.[1] 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.[3] When she widowed in 1882, she moved with her children to Paris, where she died on 22 April 1892.[1]

Selected works
  • Samper, José María; Samper, Agripina (1860). "Ensayos Poéticos de Pía-Rigán" [Poetic Essays of Pía-Rigán]. Ecos de los Andes [Echos of the Andes] (in Spanish). Paris: E. Thunot. OCLC 12355033.
  • Añez, Julio. Parnaso Colombiano: Colección de Poesías Escogidas [Colombian Parnassus: Selected Poetry of Agripina Samper] (PDF) (in Spanish). Luis Ángel Arango Library. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
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References
  1. García Vásquez, Julio Cesar. "Ernesto Samper Pizano, Familiares Y Parentela". Genealogía Colombiana (PDF) (Family tree) (in Spanish). Interconexion Colombia. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
  2. Samper Ortega, Daniel, ed. (1935–1936). "Biblioteca Aldeana de Colombia" [Village Library of Colombia] (in Spanish) (89). Bogotá: Editorial Minerva: 96. OCLC 316816714. Retrieved 2013-04-08. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Anuario colombiano de historia social y de la cultura" [Colombian Annuary of Social History and Culture] (in Spanish) (26–27). Bogotá: National University of Colombia: 76. ISSN 0120-2456. OCLC 1586457. Retrieved 2013-04-08. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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