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Born in Buenos Aires in 1819, Juana Manso de Noronha was a writer, journalist, newspaper editor, educational reformer and campaigner for women's rights. In 1840 she was forced into exile in Uruguay with her family by the dictator, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and in subsequent years she travelled extensively throughout the Americas, notable to Brazil, Cuba and the United States. She returned to Argentina in 1853, following the demise of the dictators...

With Los misterios del Plata, published in 1846 (just months after the release of Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo), Juana Manso precedes by five years the publishing of Amalia by Jose Marmol, and constitutes the first historical novel with political background ever written in the River Plate.In spite of her express intention of not being in her soul the imitation of Eugenio Sue's "Misteries of Paris", the historical veracity of the episode of V...