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‘She was audacious, she was autonomous, she was an indefatigable combatant for the workers and for the women.’
A pioneer of Latin American feminist movement and instrumental in the growth of Utopian Socialism, the life of Peruvian-French social activist Flora Tristan took her on a global journey of the sort seldom undertaken by lone women of the time.
Flora tristan biography examples
Undaunted, Flora took it upon herself to raise and defend the cause of the oppressed and challenge the injustice she saw, documenting and publishing her travels and observations in Pérégrinations d’une paria (‘Pilgrimage of a Pariah’).
Flora’s youth is largely undocumented, due to the circumstances that befell her. Born in 1803 into a wealthy family, the death of her Navy colonel father in 1807 led to significant poverty for Flora, her mother and brother, perhaps a foundation for her later work in socialism.
Until the age of fifteen, the historical consensus has been that Flora lived in the co