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Flora Tristán
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Writer Flora Tristán was born on April 7, 1803
in Paris (France). Her mother, a French so-called Anne Laisney, was single when
she had to Flora. Her father was a Peruvian colonel of the Spanish Navy, Marino
Tristán y Moscoso. The first years of Flora passed in a well-off hearth that
was receiving frequent visits of intellectuals and excellent persons as Simón
Bolívar. At the age of four her father died, and the French state, in full
revolution, denied all the rights to her mother for not being married, plunging
the family in the poverty. Flora, to help economically, is employed like
engraver at the workshop of a man so-called André Chazal, which she
marries with only seventeen years and she had two sons. One of her daughters
would be the mother of the famous painter Paul Gaugin. Four years
later, disillusioned of the relation with her husband, she separates of him and
goes to England, where she works as servant. Harassed by her bad economic
situation, she travels round diverse countries being employed in an office that
provides sustenance, but finally she returns to France where she decides to claim the heredity of
her paternal family
writing to her uncle Pío Tristán. In 1833 she travels to Peru to claim her
rights, but she does not achieve her pretensions, for being a daughter of single,
and must be content with a monthly pension.
In Peru she lives through the civil war and the
big differences of class, there beginning to be forged in her interior the bases
of her thought as advocate of the working class and of the women. The relation
with her husband, André Chazal, deteriorates before Flora's insistence for
recovering her children, being frequent the fights. Her husband chases and
attacks her for years, until one day shot to Flora and made her badly
injured, action for which he was condemned to forced works. In 1836 Flora manages to get in
the English House of Lords disguised as man, and asks to approve the divorce
and the capital punishment. After the death of her husband Flora finds time
and calmness to devote herself to the Literature, capturing in writing her
thoughts on the rights of the women, her position favorable to the divorce, her
trips for England and Peru, and her defense of the working class. Very much
before Marx, Flora Tristán had already written the famous one "Workers
of the world, join!". She is considered to be a precursor of the socialistic
ideas and the feminism. She died forty one years because of the typhus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FLORA TRISTÁN
- (1835) Need to give good reception to
the foreign women
- (1838) Peregrinations of a pariah
- (1838) Mephis or the proletarian
- (1839) Selection of letters to Simón
Bolívar
- (1840) Walk in London
- (1840) The workers of the factories
- (1840) Prostitutes
- (1840) The English women
- (1843) The working union
- (1843) To the workers
- (1843) Why I mention to the women
- (1846) The emancipation of the
woman (posthumous work)
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