[2] Escalada started teaching during the War Of The Triple Alliance, working at a small primary school in Atyrá.
Nearing the end of the war she was forced to abandon the town, accompanying her grandfather to Cerro Corá.
[1] In October 1869 Escalada wrote an article championing women's education in the first issue of the newspaper La Regeneración, Paraguay's first privately-owned periodical.
[6] Escalada also encouraged culture and the arts in Paraguay, giving patronage to her son Gustavo Sosa's student, the guitarist Agustín Barrios.
[1] Exiled with her husband, Asunción Escalada died in Buenos Aires on December 11, 1894.