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Isabel Margarita Ordetx

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Isabel Margarita Ordetx
BornIsabel Margarita Ordetx y Cruz Prieto
1897
Havana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire
DiedCuba
Occupation
  • Writer
  • Poet
  • Feminist activist
LanguageSpanish
GenreEssay
Literary movementFeminism

Isabel Margarita Ordetx y Cruz Prieto (1897 – ) was a Cuban writer, poet, and feminist activist.[1] She contributed to various publications of her country as a chronicler, including Heraldo de Cuba, La Discusión, El Fígaro, la Bohemia,[2] América, Las Antillas, and Arte. Revista Universal.[3]

She was also editor of La Mujer, together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and Domitila García de Coronado.[4] She launched the women's magazine Vanidades with Josefina Mosquera in 1937,[5] and was its editor-in-chief from 1937 to 1952.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Roig de Leuchsenring, Emilio (1954). Facetas de la vida de Cuba republicana 1902–1952 [Facets of life of Republican Cuba 1902–1952] (in Spanish). Municipality of Havana, Office of the Historian.
  2. ^ Baquero, Gastón; Báez, Vicente (1975). La enciclopedia de Cuba [The Encyclopedia of Cuba] (in Spanish). Enciclopedia y Clásicos Cubanos. ISBN 978-843-590-094-2.
  3. ^ "Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana" [Dictionary of Cuban Literature] (in Spanish). Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Diccionario de la Literatura Cubana" [Dictionary of Cuban Literature] (in Spanish). Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  5. ^ Costa, Octavio Ramón (1994). Imagen y trayectoria del cubano en la historia: La República, 1902–1959 [Image and trajectory of the Cuban in history: The Republic, 1902–1959] (in Spanish). Ediciones Universal. p. 620.
  6. ^ Endres, Kathleen L.; Lueck, Therese L. (1995). Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 509. ISBN 978-031-328-631-5.