The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Born in 1864 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Trinidad Padilla de Sanz, also known as “La hija del Caribe,” was a prominent writer, composer, teacher, and women’s rights activist. Her father was the acclaimed poet José Gualberto Padilla, also known as “El Caribe.” Padilla de Sanz’s publications include Rebeldía (1918), De mi collar (Ed. París-América, 1926), and Cálices abiertos (Revista Gráfica del Sur, 1943). She died in Arecibo in 1957.

Works Cited

“La Hija del Caribe.” The Trina Padilla de Sanz Collection, https://trinapadilla.omeka.net/exhibits/show/trina-padilla-de-sanz/intro. 

Thompson, Donald. Music in Puerto Rico : A Reader’s Anthology. Scarecrow Press, 2002.

“Trina Padilla de Sanz.” EnciclopediaPR, edited by Lizette Cabrera Salcedo, reviewed by Mariela Fullana Acosta, Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 15 September 2014, enciclopediapr.org/content/trina-padilla-de-sanz/.

The Trina Padilla de Sanz Papers, 1845-1968, The Monsignor William Noé Field Archives & Special Collections Center, Seton Hall University MS 0020.