Background
After breaking an engagement with a well-to-do provincial, she moved to Cádiz,Cadiz, Spain, where she opened a literary salon and contributed to periodicals under the pseudonym of La Peregrina (The Wanderer). In 1840 she moved to Madrid and soon after published her first collection of verse, PoesíasPoesias (1841), which won her the esteem of her contemporaries. After a passionate love affair with the poet Gabriel GarcíaGarcia Tassara, in 1846 she married the governor of Madrid, Pedro Sabater. He died three months later.
In 1855, at the height of her writing career, with several plays and novels to her name and having won recognition as a popular poet, she married Colonel Domingo Verdugo and went with him to Cuba. In Havana she published the successful magazine Album Cubano de lo Bueno y lo Bello ("Cuban Album of the Good and the Beautiful"). After her husband's death she returned to Spain, settling in Madrid, where she died on Feb. 1, 1873.
