Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton Books
The Squatter and the Don
By Ana Castillo, Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton
A historical romance with an activist heart, and an impassioned critique of U.S. expansionism—with an introduction by Ana Castillo, author of So Far from GodA fiercely partisan novel bas...
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By Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton
"Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered California nineteenth-century novelist, struggled against the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Latinos in the southwest...
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By Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton
A major rediscovery—the first novel by a Mexican American WomanMaría Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the first Mexican American woman to write novels in English and the first nineteenth-century Californi...
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