Etiqueta: Amelia Mar A De La Luz Montes

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mara Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation […]