Angélica Palma
Angélica Palma y Román (Lima, 1878 – Rosario, 1935) was a writer, journalist and biographer from Peru. Life Angélica Palma was the daughter of famous Peruvian author and scholar Ricardo Palma and Cristina Román Olivier. Her brother Clemente Palma was also a distinguished Peruvian writer. She received her primary education at a school operated by Teresa González de Fanning. She continued her education under the supervision of her father who held the position of director of the National Library of Peru. In 1892, she and her brother Ricardo Palma accompanied their father on a trip to Spain, where he represented Peru at the Ninth International Congress of Americanists. On the death of their father in 1919, Angélica and her sisters Augusta and Renée devoted themselves to the task of publishing their father's principal work, the ''Tradiciones Peruanas''. She edited a selection of her father's writings that was published under the title ''El Palma de la Juventud'' (The Pal ...
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