María Guadalupe Cuenca de Moreno (1790 – September 1, 1854) was a 19th-century Upper Peru-born Argentine letter writer.
María Guadalupe Cuenca was born in Chuquisaca, Upper Peru, in 1790. After her father's death, she spent her childhood in a convent in her hometown. [1]
On May 20, 1804, she married Mariano Moreno, [1] whom she met while Moreno was studying law in Bolivia. [2] After the couple had a child together, they moved to Calle de la Piedad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A few days after Moreno left for England, Cuenca received a box which contained a pair of black gloves, a black fan, and a mourning veil. [2] But she was never informed that Moreno died on the high seas. While waiting for news of her husband, she wrote him a ten love letters that were returned unopened. [1] [2] Enrique Williams Álzaga later compiled them in a book entitled Cartas que nunca llegaron (Letters that never came). [3] After the death of her husband, Cuenca raised her son alone. [1] Destituted, she asked the Triumvirate for a pension, and it agreed to give her a pension of 30 pesos. [4] She died in Buenos Aires, on September 1, 1854.