Dolores Jim%C3%A9nez y Muro

Dolores Jimnez y Muro was a Mexican schoolteacher and revolutionary. A native of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico, she rose to prominence during the Mexican Revolution as a Socialist activist and reformer and as a supporter and associate of General Emiliano Zapata.

Dolores Jimnez y Muro was born June 7, 1850 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, but while young her family moved San Luis Potos. She grew up in the upper middle class of San Luis Potos, where her father was a senior government official. The family had many liberal friends and from her childhood Jimnez was exposed to foreign and liberal ideas. She had no formal schooling, studying at home, but was encouraged to pursue her talent for poetry. In 1874, she was invited by the state government to read her poems at an official celebration of the September independence festivals. These poems were later collected into a book and published as Un rayo de luz . In 1883 Jimnez lost both of her parents and she began teaching school. She became aware of how easily one could fall into poverty or become exploited.

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