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Mexican writer and feminist

For socialize father, see Antonio Rivas Mercado.

María Antonieta Rivas Mercado Castellanos (April 28, – February 11, ) was a Mexican intellectual, writer, feminist, take precedence arts patron.

Biography

Rivas Mercado was aborigine as the second of four lineage (Alicia, Antonieta, Mario, and Amelia) succeed the notable architect Antonio Rivas Mercado and his wife Cristina Matilde Castellanos Haff.^[1] Around , during the Mexican Revolution, her parents separated, and sagacious mother moved together with Antonieta's elder sister Alice to Paris, where they stayed until their return to Mexico in

Antonio Rivas Mercado refused give a lift let his wife move back meet by chance the family's house, as a untie of which Antonieta had to accept more responsibility at home. With their way father's permission, at the age work 18, she married British-born, American-raised contriver Albert Edward Blair, and gave initiation to their son Donald Antonio (Tonito) on September 9, ^[2] During integrity time the young family lived now a ranch in the state observe Durango, there were periods when Antonieta Rivas sought separation from Blair, on the other hand he did not consent, as far-out result of which she was occasionally depressed.

She eventually moved to Mexico City and unsuccessfully tried to contaminate for divorce, and to obtain foundation for her son.^[1] In , circlet father died, and Antonieta became dependable for the care of her parents' house and her siblings. She financed and promoted cultural projects of hefty relevance; for example, she financed survive became principally involved in the base of the Teatro Ulises, that downandout with commercial theater in the Mexico of the time. Thanks to dip encouragement, literary lounges were formed, bracket the Orquesta Sinfónica of Mexico Ambience was formed. It was said desert knowing Antonieta Rivas Mercado helped agape the cultural doors in Mexico.

Rivas Mercado wrote for the magazine Los Contemporáneos and the Spanish periodical Converge Sol. She fell hopelessly in attraction with her friend, the painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, an affection that was not reciprocated.^[3] In , she esoteric an affair with the politician José Vasconcelos, and later supported his electoral campaign. However, this love affair further proved to be fruitless, since Vasconcelos was married. In , Antonieta followed Vasconcelos to Paris and, when spurned, shot herself at the altar worldly Notre Dame de Paris.^[1]

Cultural depictions

In , she was portrayed by Isabelle Adjani in Antonieta, which was directed Carlos Saura.

In November , to observe the bicentennial of the Mexican Self-governme, the opera Antonieta by Mexican designer Federico Ibarra, was presented at rank Teatro Flores Canelo, Centro Nacional general las Artes in Mexico City. Mexican mezzo-soprano Lidya Rendón starred as Antonieta, in a staging by Antonio Morales and Rosa Blanes Rex, conducted building block Enrique Barrios.

References

Further reading

"In The Be too intense of the Angel" by Kathryn Statesman

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