GERTRUDIS See also:

• GOMEZ, DIOGO (DIEGO) (ff. 1440-1482)

GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA (1814-1873)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish dramatist and poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Puerto Principe (See also:

• CUBA (the aboriginal name)

Cuba) on the 23rd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1814, and removed to See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain in 1836 . Her Poesias liricas (1841), issued with a laudatory See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface by Gallego, made a most favourable impression and were republished With additional poems in 185o . In 1846 she married a diplomatist named Pedro Sabater, became a widow within a See also:

• YEAR

year, and in 1853 married See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel Domingo Verdugo . Meanwhile she had published Sab (1839), Guatimozin (1846), and other novels of no See also:

• GREAT

great importance . She obtained, however, a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of successes on the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage with Alfonso Munio (1844), a tragedy in the new romantic manner; with Said (1849), a biblical See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama indirectly suggested by See also:

• ALFIERI, VITTORIO, COUNT (1749-1803)

Alfieri; and with Baltasar (1858), a piece which bears some resemblance to See also:

• BYRON, GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6TH BARON (1788-1824)
• BYRON, HENRY JAMES (1834-1884)
• BYRON, HON
• BYRON, JOHN BYRON

Byron's See also:

• SARDANAPALUS, or SARDANAPALLUS

Sardanapalus . Her See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce with the See also:

• WORLD

world had not diminished her natural piety, and, on the See also:

• DEATH

death of her second See also:

• HUSBAND

husband, she found so much See also:

• CONSOLATION (Fr. consolation, Lat. consolatio, from consolari, to assuage, comfort, console)

consolation in See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion that she had thoughts of entering a See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent . She died at See also:

• MADRID

Madrid on the 2nd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1873, ' full of mournful forebodings as to the future of her adopted See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . It is impossible to agree with See also:

• VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS (179o-1867)

Villemain that " le genie de See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

don Luis de See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

Leon et de sainte Therese a reparu sous le voile funebre de See also:

• GOMEZ, DIOGO (DIEGO) (ff. 1440-1482)

Gomez de Avellaneda," for she has neither the See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk's mastery of poetic See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form not the See also:

• NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

nun's See also:

• SUBLIME (Lat. sublimis, exalted)

sublime simplicity of soul . She has a grandiose tragical See also:

• VISION (from Lat. videre, to see), or SIGHT

vision of See also:

• LIFE

life, a vigorous eloquence rooted in pietistic See also:

• PESSIMISM (from Lat. pessimus, worst)

pessimism, a dramatic See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift effective in isolated acts or scenes; but she is deficient in constructive See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power and in intellectual force, and her lyrics, though See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct with See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy beauty, or the tenderness of resigned devotion, too often lack human See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion and sympathy . The edition of her Obras literarias (5 vols., 1869-1871), still incomplete, shows a scrupulous care for See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute revision uncommon in Spanish writers; but her emendations are seldom happy . But she is interesting as a See also:

• LINK

link between the classic and romantic See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools of See also:

• POETRY

poetry, and, whatever her See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic shortcomings, she has no rivals of her own See also:

• SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex in Spain during the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century .