Manuela Antonia Márquez y García-Saavedra

Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra (1844–1890) was a Peruvian writer, poet, composer and pianist. She was considered to be one of the most prominent poets of the 1870 generation. Marquez also wrote prose articles, and a score for the dramatic zarzuela composed by brother, Arnaldo Márquez, titled La Novia del Colegial.

She studied at the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Belén of Lima, and published articles and poems with diverse publications like El Correo de Perú, El Cosmorama, or La Alborada. Some poems were included in the collective works Parnaso peruano (1871) and Poetisas americanas (1896). Her numerous poems were scattered in magazines over many years, but were forgotten later. as well as a dramatic zarzuela entitled La novia del colegial.

Marquez was the mother of the writer Delia Castro Márquez and grandmother of the writer Serafina Quinteras.