Born: 25 August 1837, Cuba
Died: 25 March 1922
Country most active: Cuba
Also known as: Luisa Pérez y Montes de Oca
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Another poetess, recently deceased, who left a brilliant name in Cuban literature. We refer to Luisa Perez de Zambrana, who was born in Cobre, providence of Oriente in 1837, and published her first volume of poems in 1856, some of her works having been translated into French and Italian. She also wrote two novels; Angelica y Estrella and La Hija del Verdugo. Her last volume of poems was edited in Havana, in 1920. In the introduction to this work, one of the first Cuban literary writers, Dr. Enrique Jose: “Castilian poetry found more suave notes, nor sweeter, nor more tender, to convey the feelings of a fervid soul — the great writer so early in her life possessed of so many and such deep sentiments, will become the foremost elegiac poetess in Cuban letters.”