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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Born: March 23, 1814
Died: February 1, 1873 (aged 58)
Bio: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was a 19th-century Cuban-born Spanish writer. Born in Puerto Príncipe, she lived in Cuba until she was 22.