María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (died 1873)

María Bibiana Benítez

Puerto Rican writer

María Bibiana Benítez Batista was a Puerto Rican writer who was Puerto Rico's first female poet and one of its first playwrights. She was the first of three renowned poets in her family, the others being her niece and adopted daughter Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier, and…