Agustina Andrade

Biography

Agustina Pastora Andrade (9 August 1858 – 10 February 1891) was an Argentine poet, considered to be one of the principal writers of the Generation of '80, and "probably the most praised female poet of the 1870s". The daughter of the poet Olegario Victor Andrade, her poems were praised by poet and journalist Martín Coronado for their "idealized romantic love".

Andrade was married to the military officer and explorer Ramón Lista. In 1890, Andrade learned that her husband maintained a parallel family in Patagonia with an indigenous Tehuelche woman called Koila, with whom he had a daughter. She reacted by isolating herself within her house for months, and then committed suicide with a revolver.