| Summary: | The story and life of Mariquita Sánchez goes parallel to the story of the nation : Argentina as a country came to life at the time Mariquita abandoned childhood and it could even be affirmed that either the woman or the nation reached together their maturity. The Río de la Plata as a young nation was narrated by an equally young Mariquita in her epistolary correspondence, that became a sort of ethnographic treatise of the day to day life in the nineteenth century society. The steady participation of Mariquita Sánchez in the historic events during the first half of the nineteenth century raised her to an iconographic figure of the Argentine independence. Her active role in political life and her autonomous thought, writings and activities rendered her a reputation of extravagant character and quite often even throughout her life the epithet of “mad”. She was a person very conscious of the changes operating in her lifetime and even a true wanderer. She was curious about fashion, politics, international relations and the process of independence of her country. Her friends were mostly males with whom she maintained correspondence, social meetings and discussions, because she behaved with them at the same level, helping some of them in ideology and in practice to configure the Argentina nation.
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