Amalia Mallén de Ostolaza was a
Cuban essayist, translator,
suffragist, and
feminist activist.[1][2][3] She was one of the architects of Cuba's
women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with
Digna Collazo and
Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia. She participated in the founding of the country's first organizations supporting this cause, such as the National Feminist Party (1912), the Suffragist Party (1913) and National Suffragist Party (1913).[4][5] She was also director of the newspapers La Luz (1913) and El Sufragista.[6][7]
In 1924, as president of the National Suffragist Party, she named journalist
María Collado Romero her vice president.[8]
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^Campuzano, Luisa (1999). El sol en la nieve: Julián del Casal (1863–1893) [The sun on snow: Julián del Casal (1863–1893)] (in Spanish).
Casa de las Américas. p. 290.
ISBN978-959-040-067-4.
^Asociación de Reporters de La Habana (1952). Album del cincuentenario de la Asociación de Reporters de La Habana 1902–1952 [Album of the 50th anniversary of the Havana Reporters' Association 1902–1952] (in Spanish). Havana Reporters' Association. p. 440.
^González, Julio César (1998). "Historia de la mujer en Cuba: del feminismo liberal a la acción política femenina" [History of the women of Cuba: from liberal feminism to women's political action]. In
Piqueras Arenas, José Antonio (ed.). Diez nuevas miradas de historia de Cuba [Ten new looks at the history of Cuba] (in Spanish).
Jaume I University. p. 285.
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^Alzola, Concepción Teresa (2009). Trayectoria de la mujer Cubana [Trajectory of the Cuban woman] (in Spanish). Ediciones Universal. p. 461.
ISBN978-159-388-127-6.
^Barcia, María del Carmen; Carr Parúas, Fernando; Leyva Collazo, Yahima; Ibarra, Jorge (2009). Mujeres al margen de la historia [Women on the margin of history] (in Spanish). Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. p. 251.
ISBN978-959-061-224-4.