Una holandesa en América
By: Soledad Acosta de Samper ; introducción y notas de Carolina Alzate, Catharina Vallejo
Contributors: Alzate, Carolina, writer of supplementary textual content; Vallejo, Catharina V. de (Catharina Vanderplaats), writer of supplementary textual content
Edition: Tercera edición.
Publisher: Universidad de los Andes; Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia ; Instituto Caro y Cuervo
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bogotá
Language: spa
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789587743630
Subjects: Women immigrants; Fiction; Dutch fiction
Description: Perhaps the most important novel of Soledad Acosta de Samper, and one of the most important in nineteenth-century Latin American literature.  Through diaries and letters this novel of travel and coming-of-age narrates the European immigration to Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century, including the lives of women, the challenges and contradictions of modernization, and civil wars.
Notes: This edition includes for the first time a facsimile of a volume containing the novel in scrapbook format illustrated by the author using engravings, watercolors and photographs.