5 February 1895 – 1923), also known by her pseudonym Eugenio,[1] was a Cuban writer, journalist, suffragist, and feminist activist.
[2] She was one of the architects of Cuba's women's suffrage campaign of the 1910s, along with Digna Collazo and Amalia Mallén.
[4] She was the daughter of Rodolfo Manuel José Jesús Peláez y Hernández and Adela María Aída de la Caridad Martínez y Díaz Morales, and began to write at an early age.
[8] She was the "first woman to be counted as a member of the Governing Board of the Athenaeum of Havana, having been re-elected to it three times.
[4] Furthermore, she was editor of the periodicals La discusión,[2] La Mujer (together with Domitila García de Coronado and Isabel Margarita Ordetx), de Atlántida (together with Clara Moreda),[5] and the literary-cultural magazine Ideal which she founded in 1919.