Angela Marie Legaspi
Manalang Gloria is a Filipino author born on the 23rd of August,
1907 in Guagua, Pamapanga. Her father, Felipe Dizon Manalang, was born in
Mexico, Pampanga. Her mother’s name is Tomasa Legaspi.
Her husband, Celedonio, and
her son, Ruben, were attacked by a Japanese patrol in Alitagtag, Batangas.
Unfortunately, her husband died. The event turned her into a young widow with
three children to support, which made her abandon writing and enter the abaca
business, which she successfully managed.
She was the author of Revolt
from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her denial by
an all-male jury from winning the Philippines’ Commonwealth Literary Awards
(1940). She also wrote a poetry collection, Poems, which was first published in
1940 and got revised in 1950. Poems contained the best of her early work as
well as unpublished poems written between 1934-1938.
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Manalang-Gloria
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