Life in Madrid
After taking a vow of abstinence after the death of Alberto at sea (whether he was real or imaginary), she revoked the vow when she married Horacio Justo Perry in Madrid in 1852. Perry was the secretary of the American embassy.
Coronado had a revolutionary spirit, and she became famous while living in Madrid for the literary salons she held. Her gatherings served as a meeting-point for progressive writers and a refuge for the persecuted, including many of the most well-known authors of the time. Unfortunately for her, her clandestine refuge and affinity for revolution brought about the disapproval of her contemporaries.
Despite this, she succeeded in publishing several works in newspapers and magazines and thus gained a certain measure of fame. Her physical beauty undoubtedly contributed to her success, and it caused infamous admiration in other romantic writers. In fact, José de Espronceda dedicated the following verses to her:
- Dicen que tienes trece primaveras (They say that you have thirteen springs)
- y eres portento de hermosura ya, (and you are a vision of beauty)
- y que en tus grandes ojos reverberas (and that in your great eyes reverberates)
- la lumbre de los astros inmortal. (the glow of the immortal stars.)
Coronado died in Lisbon, Portugal on 15 January 1911.
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““You are old, Father William,” the young man cried,
“And life must be hastening away;
You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death:
Now tell me the reason, I pray.”
“I am cheerful, young man,” Father William replied;
“Let the cause thy attention engage;
In the days of my youth I remembered my God,
And He hath not forgotten my age.””
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)