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    Frances Calderon de la Barca (Inglis)

    Birth: 12-23-1804

    Death: 2-6-1882

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Calderon de la Barca, Angel | Marriage Date: 9-24-1838

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She was an author who wrote one of the first travel accounts of Mexico from a female perspective, titled Life in Mexico (1843). She married Angel Calderón de la Barca who was the 1835 Spanish minister to the United States. The couple were close friends with the Boston historian William Hickling Prescott. They had no children together and lived in DC for much of the 1830s and 1840s.

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Biography: 
She was an author who wrote one of the first travel accounts of Mexico from a female perspective, titled Life in Mexico (1843). She married Angel Calderón de la Barca who was the 1835 Spanish minister to the United States. The couple were close friends with the Boston historian William Hickling Prescott. They had no children together and lived in DC for much of the 1830s and 1840s.
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Citation URL: 
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-45786
Title of Webpage: 
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Citation Notes: 
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/45786 Published in print: 23 September 2004Published online: 23 September 2004This version: 27 May 2010
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Citation Type: 
Book or Book Chapter
Book or Monograph Title: 
Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-century Travel Accounts
Author(s) or Editor(s): 
June Edith Hahner
Year: 
1998
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