DE GONSALES 



letters composed the volume Un Paseo por 

 America, issued in 1895. 



Upon the sudden death of her husband, 

 the twenty-fourth of March, 1895, she 

 determined to write no more since the 

 main incentive was gone. 



By the edict of General Weyler she was 

 again expelled from Cuba in 1896 and 

 chose for her place of residence Santa Cruz 

 de Tenerife and aftei wards Barcelona. 

 Returning to Cuba at the close of the 

 Spanish regime, and finding her former 

 home in Guanabacoa in ruins her emotions 

 forced her to break her resolution and write. 

 Her verses Ruinas were soon followed by 

 another poem, Expulsada, which expressed 

 her feelings upon being obliged to abandon 

 her home as the result of attack and rob- 

 bery with threats of death. 



Upon the reestablishment of the Re- 

 public in 1902 Sra Castillo de Gonsales 

 turned again to her pen; she prepared two 

 small volumes ot verses, Trozos Guerreros 

 and Apoteosis, which appeared the follow- 

 ing year. She made visits to Italy and to 

 France in 1904-5 and 1909 respectively; 



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