Background
Laura María Luisa Elena Méndez Lefort was born on Thursday, 18 August 1853 in the Hacienda de Tamariz, Amecameca, State of Mexico.
Laura María Luisa Elena Méndez Lefort was born on Thursday, 18 August 1853 in the Hacienda de Tamariz, Amecameca, State of Mexico.
Laura attended the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, and later taught at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City.
She died on 1 November 1928 due to complications related to diabetes. Laura Méndez went against the social norm prevalent during her time to pursue a career in literature. She entered several literary circles during her youth.
Beside her literary career, Méndez was also an educator.
She attended several international conferences on pedagogy as a representative of her country. These international exposures also turned her into an active feminist.
After Dolores Correa Zapata stepped down, Méndez became director of a feminist magazine, called Louisiana Mujer Mexicana (The Mexican Woman) published from 1904 to 1906. The ideology was directed to the nineteenth century culture of domesticity, but it was one of the first Mexican magazines written by women for women. de Herrera and Mateana Murguía de Aveleyra.