Amelia Solar de Claro (October 11, 1836 - November 21, 1915) was a Chilean poet, playwright, and essayist.

Biography

Maria Amelia de las Mercedes Solar was the daughter of José María del Solar Marín and

Mercedes Marín del Solar Mercedes Marín del Solar (September 11, 1804 - December 21, 1866) was a Chilean poet, school reformer, and women's rights activist. Marin del Solar hosted a literary salon in her home and advocated for Female education, women's right to educat ...

, the first Chilean poet and intellectual. She married José Luis Claro y Cruz, the promoter and one of the founders of the Cuerpo de Bomberos de Santiago, with whom she had four children, among them the jurist Luis Claro Solar and the deputy Raúl Claro Solar. She is recognized for having written and published one of the first dramatic texts of Chilean children's literature: ''María Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso'' (María Cinderella: comedy in 3 acts and verse), a comic work that was performed in

Valparaíso Valparaíso () is a major city, Communes of Chile, commune, Port, seaport, and naval base facility in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. Valparaíso was originally named after Valparaíso de Arriba, in Castilla–La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain ...

in 1884. Together with other writers such as Delfina María Hidalgo or

Quiteria Varas Marín Quiteria was a second-century virgin martyr about whom little is certain except her name, the day and the place of her death, and her cult. She is listed under the date of 22 May in the ''Roman Martyrology''. She is one of the patron saints of To ...

, Solar published some of the first texts assigned to Chilean women's poetry at the end of the 19th century.

Selected works

* ''Haroldo: episodio del siglo XV, tomado del francés'' (Santiago: Imprenta "Victoria", 1887)
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*
María Cenicienta: comedia en 3 actos i en verso
' (Santiago: Establecimiento Poligráfico Roma, 1898; Impr, i Libr. Excelsior, 1917)
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* ''Recuerdos'' (Santiago: Imp. Universitaria, 1914)
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* ''Poesías de la Sra. Amelia Solar de Claro'' (Santiago: Impr. y Encuadernación Antigua Inglesa, 1916)
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Solar de Claro, Amelia 1836 births 1915 deaths 19th-century Chilean poets Chilean dramatists and playwrights Chilean essayists 19th-century Chilean women writers