Portrait of Carolina Coronado

Carolina Coronado

Spanish author, editor

Lived
1820–1911
Country
Spain

Updated September 2026

About Carolina Coronado

Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada was a Spanish writer, famous for her poetry, considered the equivalent of contemporary Romantic authors like Rosalía de Castro. As one of the most well-known poets writing in mid-19th-century Spain, she also played a diplomatic role She both negotiated with the Spanish royal family in private and, through a series of widely published poems, promoted the aims of the Lincoln administration, especially abolition of slavery.

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