A Woman to Know: Leona Vicario
My actions and opinions have always been extremely free. — Leona Vicario
(image via Wikimedia)
After Leona's well-to-do parents died in the early 1800s, she put her inheritance and social connections to immediate use: funding the independence movement in her native Mexico City. As a member of Los Guadalupes, a secret society of rebel informants, Leona co…
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