«La educaron como en Lima educan a la mayor parte de las niñas: mimada, voluntariosa, indolente, sin conocer más autoridad que la suya, ni más limite a sus antojos que su caprichoso querer».
Eleodora (1887) and Las consecuencias (1889) conform a singular example within Mercedes Cabello de Carboneras (1842- 1909) literary production, Though the usual critique tend to consider both as the same novel, because they share the same plot, there are...
Los amores de Hortensia, that initiates the cycle of novels by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909), owes some of its characters attributes of extreme sensibility, beauty and intelligence to the longevity of Romanticism in Latin America during the...
A bestseller in its time with four published editions, Blanca Sol (1889) was a highly controversial novel when it first appeared. Thought by many to be a roman à clef about a well-known woman of Limas high society, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera...
Sacrificio y recompensa is the first Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera work ever published.Entered in the literary contest organized by the Ateneo de Lima in 1886, it earned its author the gold medal. The publication in 1887 meant for Mercedes Cabello her...