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tonio L. Luaces]. The family made its 

 home at various times in Santander, in 

 Madrid, and in Almeria, the husband 

 engaged in preparing El Pueblo de Cama- 

 giiey while Dona Aurelia wrote Hicoten- 

 catle, Dona Marina, and Moctezuma. 



Returning to Cuba, Dona Aurelia de 

 Gonsales settled with her husband in 

 Guanabacoa and wrote her: Adios de 

 Victor Hugo which won in 1885 the first 

 prize in a literary contest. The following 

 year in a similar competition her Biografia 

 de G. G. Avellaneda received honorable 

 mention. She attended the Paris Exposi- 

 tion in 1889 and recorded her impressions 

 for a Havana journal, El Pais. The 

 Revista Cubatia published subsequent 

 letters from Italy and Switzerland and a 

 poem entitled Pompeya. Later all this 

 correspondence was collected and pub- 

 lished under the title Un Paseo por Euro pa 

 (1891). 



After traveling in Mexico she visited 

 the United States and attended the Colum- 

 bian Exposition in 1893 again acting as 

 correspondent for El Pais; this series of 



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