Josefa Melgar

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: Mestiza

Events:

1790?  -  Arequipa  -  Unknown  -  From Arequipa she was the sister of Mariano Melgar.

Connections:

Female relatives of past and future leading political/military/ cultural figures
Melgar family

Biography:
The sister of Mariano Melgar, she was from Arequipa. She burned most of Melgar’s poems on the instructions of her confessor who considered them to be of little use as they were sensual and sceptic (Tamayo Vargas, 489).

References:

Tamayo Vargas, Agusto Literatura peruana