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As part of [[International Women's Day]] 2015, the ''Museo Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur'' of Buenos Aires presented the exhibition ''Malvinas, mi casa'', which included a series of watercolors reflecting life in the Falklands in 1829, based on María Sáez's diary and lectures by her descendants on Argentina's claim to the Falklands.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://museomalvinas.cultura.gob.ar/agenda/?m1=03&y=2015 |title=Día de la Mujer en el Museo Malvinas |trans-title=Women's Day at the Falklands Museum |publisher=Falklands and South Atlantic Islands Museum |language=Spanish |archive-url=http://archive.is/zYUeP |archive-date=8 March 2015 |dead-url=yes |access-date=2 August 2018}}</ref>
As part of [[International Women's Day]] 2015, the ''Museo Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur'' of Buenos Aires presented the exhibition ''Malvinas, mi casa'', which included a series of watercolors reflecting life in the Falklands in 1829, based on María Sáez's diary and lectures by her descendants on Argentina's claim to the Falklands.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://museomalvinas.cultura.gob.ar/agenda/?m1=03&y=2015 |title=Día de la Mujer en el Museo Malvinas |trans-title=Women's Day at the Falklands Museum |publisher=Falklands and South Atlantic Islands Museum |language=Spanish |archive-url=http://archive.is/zYUeP |archive-date=8 March 2015 |dead-url=yes |access-date=2 August 2018}}</ref>


María Sáez's life was used as the basis of a character in two romantic fiction novels published in Argentina: in 1982 Estela Sáenz de Méndez published ''María de las Islas: novela histórica''<ref>Sáenz de Méndez, Estela (1982). María de las Islas: novela histórica. Editorial Latinoamericana.</ref> and in 2012, Silvia Plager and Elsa Fraga Vidal co-authored ''Malvinas, la ilusión y la pérdida: Luis Vernet y María Sáez, una historia de amor'', published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina.<ref>Vidal, Elsa Fraga; Plager, Silvia (2012). Malvinas, la ilusión y la pérdida: Luis Vernet y María Sáez, una historia de amor. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina.</ref>
María Sáez's life was used as the basis of a character in two romantic fiction novels published in Argentina.<ref>Sáenz de Méndez, Estela (1982). María de las Islas: novela histórica. Editorial Latinoamericana.</ref><ref>Vidal, Elsa Fraga; Plager, Silvia (2012). Malvinas, la ilusión y la pérdida: Luis Vernet y María Sáez, una historia de amor. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina.</ref>


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María Sáez de Vernet
Born
María Sáez Pérez de Vernet

(1800-11-19)19 November 1800
Montevideo, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
Died20 October 1858(1858-10-20) (aged 57)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting placeLa Recoleta Cemetery
NationalityArgentine
Other namesMariquita[1]
Notable workDiario de 1829 en Malvinas
SpouseLuis Vernet
Children
  • Luis Emilio Vernet
  • Luisa Vernet
  • Sofía Vernet
  • Matilde Vernet
  • Gustavo Vernet
  • Carlos Vernet
  • Federico Vernet

María Sáez Pérez de Vernet (19 November 1800 – 20 October 1858) was the wife of Luis Vernet. She wrote a personal diary during her residence in Port Louis, Falkland Islands, which has been preserved together with other documents and letters in the Argentine National Archive.

Personal life

María Sáez de Vernet was born in Montevideo, which at the time was part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. She was the daughter of Francisco Sáez, a wealthy businessman, and Josefa Pérez.[2] On 17 August 1819, she married Luis Vernet, whom she had met when he set up a commercial enterprise with Conrado Rücker. They had seven children.[2]

While living in Port Louis on the Falkland Islands Sáez de Vernet kept a personal diary, which has been preserved together with other documents and letters in the Argentine National Archive.[3] She was accomplished at playing the piano; travelers and personalities who passed through the colony, referred to the "refinement" and cultural level of the Vernets. On several evenings she played the piano and sang.[4] Robert Greenhow wrote that Sáez de Vernet "played Rossini's music with great gusto."[5]

Sáez de Vernet died in Buenos Aires in 1858. The vault of the Vernet family is at La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.[6]

Recent events

Ernesto Cilley Hernández, great-grandson of María, published the 1829 diary in bilingual Spanish-English form in 1989.[7]

In 2012, the National Library of the Argentine Republic held a research scholarship contest named for María Sáez de Vernet in relation to Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands.[8]

As part of International Women's Day 2015, the Museo Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur of Buenos Aires presented the exhibition Malvinas, mi casa, which included a series of watercolors reflecting life in the Falklands in 1829, based on María Sáez's diary and lectures by her descendants on Argentina's claim to the Falklands.[9]

María Sáez's life was used as the basis of a character in two romantic fiction novels published in Argentina.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ Pueyrredón, Victoria (2003). "Estela Sáenz de Méndez". Mis reportajes [My Reports] (in Spanish). Grupo Editorial Lumen. pp. 283–285. Retrieved 2 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Montarcé Lastra, Antonio (1946). Redención de la soberanía: Las Malvinas y el diario de doña María Sáez de Vernet [Redemptionn of Sovereignty: The Falklands and the Diary of Mrs. María Sáez de Vernet] (in Spanish). Padilla y Contreras. p. 29. OCLC 1418148. Retrieved 2 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "DISCURSO MARCELO LUIS VERNET". Retrieved 5 August 2018. "En las páginas del diario de María, las cartas, papeles oficiales y contratas de trabajo, que hoy conservamos en el Archivo General de La Nación, aún late la vida de todos los días del Puerto de la Soledad de Malvinas."
  4. ^ Suárez Urtubey, Pola (22 September 2011). "Un piano en las Malvinas de 1829" [A Piano in the Falklands in 1829]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  5. ^ Gregorio Quesada, Vicente (1881). La cuestion de límites con Chile [The Question of Borders with Chile] (in Spanish). Impr. y librería de Mayo, de C. Casavalle. p. 56. Retrieved 2 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "BIENES DECLARADOS - CIUDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BUENOS AIRES" (PDF). Ministerio de Cultura. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  7. ^ Guglielmino, Osvaldo (11 November 1998). "Historia de los kelpers argentinos" [History of the Argentine Kelpers]. Clarín (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Beca de investigación 'María Sáez de Vernet'" ['María Sáez de Vernet' Research Scholarship] (in Spanish). National Library of the Argentine Republic. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Día de la Mujer en el Museo Malvinas" [Women's Day at the Falklands Museum] (in Spanish). Falklands and South Atlantic Islands Museum. Archived from the original on 8 March 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ Sáenz de Méndez, Estela (1982). María de las Islas: novela histórica. Editorial Latinoamericana.
  11. ^ Vidal, Elsa Fraga; Plager, Silvia (2012). Malvinas, la ilusión y la pérdida: Luis Vernet y María Sáez, una historia de amor. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina.
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