Mary Corylé

María Ramona Cordero y León (Cuenca, May 21, 1894–ibid., May 7, 1976), best known under her literary pseudonym Mary Corylé, was an Ecuadorian writer and poet.[1]

Mary Corylé, 1920

Biography

Daughter of Benjamín Cordero and Ángeles León, she grew up and lived her life in her parents' house facing the Tomebamba River, currently considered cultural heritage of the city of Cuenca.[2] She forged her own identity, despite stereotypes towards women, and became independent traveling alone to live in Quito where she had romances with musicians and poets. However, she did not adjust to the marriage regimes that society imposed on her, her personal fulfillment was done through poetry and letters. Her behavior was always questioned by her contemporaries which was the price she paid for living her own freedom.[3]

Her works exceed one hundred and are recognized for their questioning the national events of her time, she wrote with reason and passion, sincere at the level of Alfonsina Storni, poems of wishes of a free woman.[3]

Corylé was the granddaughter of former president Luis Cordero Crespo.[4] She was the founder of the Municipal Library of Cuenca.[5] She was a defender of women's rights in moments of injustice, her reason was to break the established schemes regarding voting, the way of dressing and thinking.[6] She won awards and recognitions, represented Ecuador as a great literary figure, worked in some public and daily positions such as, El Mercurio, since its foundation, directed the National Historical Archive. She was a journalist, researcher, teacher, published 23 books, countless poems, lyrics for hymns and "pasillos" ( raditional music in Ecuador), plays, her work she donated to the Remigio Crespo Museum before she died in 1976, at age 82. Her desires were to be buried directly in the earth to merge into it.[3]

Her grave is located in the Patrimonial Cemetery of Cuenca.[4]

Works
  • Canta la vida (1933)
  • Mundo pequeño (1948)
  • Gleba (1952) [7]
  • Nuesa Cuenca de los Andes (1957)
  • Dotora sancta Teresa (1962)
  • Mio romancero (1945)
  • Romance del amor cañari (1974)
  • Romancero de Bolívar (1961)
  • Romancero de la florecica (1946)
  • Romances fechos laureles (1952)
  • Marietta de Veintemilla (1977)
  • Aguafuertes (1954)
  • El cóndor del Aconcagua (1964)
  • Cénit en mi cumbre (1968)
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See also

References
  1. "Literatura Ecuatoriana". www.literaturaecuatoriana.com. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  2. "Inicio". Diario El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  3. Crespo, Lucia (2017-08-23). "La "Señora Sol de los Andes" Mary Corylé". El Tiempo (Diario de Cuenca).
  4. "¿Sabe dónde están las tumbas de algunos ecuatorianos memorables?". El Comercio. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  5. El, Tiempo (2015-04-27). "Mujeres, la batalla contra el olvido". El Tiempo (Diario de Cuenca). Archived from the original on 2019-10-26. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  6. Calderón Fuentes, Juan (2019-01-27). "Grandes plumas: María Ramona Cordero y León". El Telégrafo. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  7. Antología de narradoras ecuatorianas (in Spanish). Libresa. 1997. ISBN 978-9978-80-391-2.
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