María Luisa Fernández (writer)

María Luisa Fernández Bascuñán (1870–1938), also known as María Luisa Fernández de García Huidobro and by the literary pseudonym Monna Lissa, was a Chilean feminist writer, editor, and poet.[2] She was the mother of poet Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).[3]

María Luisa Fernández
Born	María Luisa Fernández Bascuñán 1870 (1870) Chile
Died	1938 (aged 67–68) Chile
Other names	María Luisa Fernández de García Huidobro Monna Lissa
Occupation	Writer, editor
Spouse(s)	Vicente García Huidobro[1]
Children	Vicente Huidobro

Career

María Luisa Fernández wrote novels and religious poetry,[4] as well as editing feminist magazines, such as that of the Chilean Women's Patriotic Union – a group she organized[5] – and Aliada (1922).[6]

Part of her literary output is known to be unpublished or scattered in newspapers and magazines – as is also the case with other feminist writers such as Luisa Lynch, Sara Hübner de Fresno, and the sisters Ximena and Carmen Morla Lynch.[2] Her literary work is considered to be part of the early 20th century avant-garde that sought to massify feminist thinking and fight for women's rights.

For some authors, her work can be framed within so-called "aristocratic feminism", along with other writers such as Inés Echeverría Bello, María Mercedes Vial, Teresa Wilms Montt, the sisters Morla Lynch, and Mariana Cox Méndez.[7][8]

Works

• Oraciones de mi madre para mis hijos (Santiago: Imprenta y encuadernación Chile, 1905)
• Vida de la santísima Virgen María, madre de Dios (Santiago: Impr. Chile, 1935)
• María del Carmen (novel, Santiago: Impr. Claret, 1930)

References

1. Vega, Carlos B. (2007). Hombres y mujeres de América: diccionario biográfico-genealógico de nuestros progenitores, siglos XVI-XIX [Men and Women of America: Biographical-Genealogical Dictionary of Our Progenitors, 19th–20th Centuries] (in Spanish). University of León Secretary of Publications and Audiovisual Media. p. 133. ISBN 9788497733601.
2. Subercaseaux, Bernardo (1 January 1997). Genealogía de la vanguardia en Chile [Genealogy of the Avant-Garde in Chile] (in Spanish). University of Chile Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. p. 57.
3. Nómez, Naín (1992). Poesía chilena contemporánea: breve antología crítica [Contemporary Chilean Poetry: Brief Critical Anthology] (in Spanish). Andrés Bello. p. 65. ISBN 9789567222018. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via Google Books.
4. Subercaseaux, Bernardo (1997). Historia de Las Ideas y la Cultura en Chile, tomo III. El centenario y las vanguardias [History of Ideas and Culture in Chile, Volume III. The Centenary and the Avant-Garde] (in Spanish). Editorial Universitaria. p. 98. ISBN 9789561117075. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via Google Books.
5. Teigelboim, Volodia (1993). Huidobro: La marcha infinita [Huidobro: The Infinite March] (in Spanish). BAT.
6. Klimpel Alvarado, Felícitas (1962). La Mujer Chilena: El Aporte Femenino Al Progreso de Chile, 1910–1960 [The Chilean Woman: The Female Contribution to the Progress of Chile, 1910–1960] (in Spanish). Andrés Bello.
7. Poblete Alday, Patricia; Rivera Aravena, Carla (Spring 2003). "El feminismo aristocrático: la violencia simbólica y ruptura soterrada a comienzos del siglo XX" [Aristocratic Feminism: Symbolic Violence and Buried Rupture at the Beginning of the 20th Century]. Revista de historia social y de las mentalidades (in Spanish). University of Santiago, Chile. 1 (7): 57–79. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
8. "Los Dos Ultimos Libros de Bernardo Subercaseaux: De los Libros y de Inés Echeverría, Iris" [The Last Two Books by Bernardo Subercaseaux: Of the Books and of Inés Echeverría, Iris]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 17 June 2001. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2017.