María Josefa Acevedo Sánchez

María Josefa Acevedo Sánchez de Gómez (1803–1861), generally published under the name Josefa Acevedo or Josefa Acevedo de Gómez, was a Colombian poet and prose writer.

Biography

Early life Acevedo was born in Bogotá on 23 January 1803, to José Acevedo y Gómez and Catalina Sánchez de Tejada. She had two older siblings, José Pedro and Liboria, and six younger siblings, Eusebia, José Prudencio, Juan Miguel, Alfonso, Catarina, and Concepción.

Acevedo also wrote a two-act stage play titled La coqueta burlada, a novel, an autobiography, and other works that were never published, some of which were purportedly lost to fire.

Marriage and children Acevedo was married to lawyer and politician Diego Fernándo Gómez. Together, they had two daughters, Amalia and Rosa and adopted a son, Joaquín. Her children later married and had children of their own, among them Colombian politician and poet Adolfo León Gómez.

Death In the final years of her life, Acevedo resided in her daughter Rosa's home in the countryside. She died there on 19 January 1861 and was buried in the nearby town of Pasca, Cundinamarca.

Published works Source:

Essays Tratado sobre economía doméstica para el uso de las madres de familia i de las amas de casa (1848, José A. Cualla)

Ensayo sobre los deberes de los casados (1857, F. Torres Amaya); earlier editions published anonymously

Biographies Biografía del General José Acevedo Tejada, with Alfonso Acevedo (1850, León Echeverría)

Biografía del doctor Diego Fernando Gómez (1854, F. Torres Amaya)

Recuerdos nacionales: José Acevedo y Gómez (1860, Pizano y Pérez)

Biografía de Vicente Azuero (n.d.)

Biografía de Luis Vargas Tejada (n.d.)

Poetry collections Oráculo de las flores y las frutas, acomodado a su lenguaje i con doce respuestas en verso (1856, F. Torres Amaya)

Poesías de una Granadina (1854, Anselmo León)

Short stories Cuadros de la vida privada de algunos granadinos (1861, El Mosaico)

Recognition Poems by Acevedo were included in Poetisas americanas, an 1896 anthology of verse by noted female poets of the Americas.