[4] Encouraged by her father, she began publishing her poems in La Tribuna, forming a distinct poetic style, clearly influenced by Victor Hugo and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
[5] Her poems were praised by the likes of Benigno Tejeiro Martínez and Martín Coronado for their "idealized romantic love".
Lista left the Territorio Nacional de Santa Cruz, where he became the second governor, while Andrade lived in Témperley, about twenty kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires.
In 1890, Andrade learned that her husband maintained a parallel family in Patagonia with an indigenous Tehuelche woman called Koila, with whom he had a daughter.
[8] Heartbroken, she locked herself in the house for months on end, before leaving her two daughters in the care of her mother and committing suicide with a revolver on 10 February 1891.