P O N CE T 



CAROLINA PONCET Y DE 

 CARDENAS 



Author; teacher. 



Carolina Poncet y de Cardenas was 

 born in the village of Guanabacoa in the 

 outskirts of Havana and belongs to an 

 ancient and distinguished Cuban family, 

 her uncle being the well-known literary 

 man Jose M. de Cardenas y Rodriguez. 

 After finishing her elementary studies she 

 pursued courses in the normal school for 

 school teachers in Havana and secured the 

 degree of Mistress of Elementary and Su- 

 perior Primary Education. As her family 

 was ruined economically during the War of 

 Independence, she was obliged to put her 

 pedagogical training into practice at an early 

 age. She took part in the reorganization 

 in Cuba of primary education, becoming 

 head-mistress of a public school in Havana. 



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