The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Considered one of the most influential figures in nineteenth century Puerto Rican poetry, the poet and educator Fidela Matheu y Adrián was born in 1852 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. She went to an all-girls school, where she began writing poems as a young child. Later, Matheu y Adrián worked as a school teacher in Hormigueros, Sabana Grande, and Yauco, Puerto Rico. . In 1927, she died in Yauco at age 75. A collection of her work, Fidela: obra poética inédita (Ediciones Boán), was compiled and published in 2010. 

Works Cited

Ballester López, Amparo María. “La obra poética inédita de Fidela Matheu y Adrián.” VerbiClara, 10 August 2011, verbiclara.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/la-obra-poetica-inedita-de-fidela-matheu-y-adrian/.

de Angelis, María Luisa. Mujeres puertorriqueñas, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1908.

Rosa, Marioantonio. “Fidela Matheu y Adrián: de una poesía y el nombre de un buen amor.” El Post Antillano, 7 June 2014, elpostantillano.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10497:marioantonio-rosa-sp-469468069&catid=309&Itemid=1019.