At the age of seven, she entered the Beguinage of Santo Domingo in Granada, the center where the Empress Eugénie de Montijo was educated,[2] where the child learned to read, write, and do domestic work.

That same year, she was named Academic-Professor of Sciences and Literature, and member of merit of the "Liceo Artístico y Literario de Granada".

She wrote more than two hundred works, all with a religious and Catholic moral background, covering almost all literary genres: novels, stories, legends, moral studies, poetry, dramas and comedies, biographies of famous women, devotional books, lives of saints, essays, epistles, doctrinal and customs articles, and opera and zarzuela librettos.

The narrative, developed in environments typical of Romanticism, has characteristics of a serial novel, with a marked dualistic character, moralistic purposes, pronounced sentimentalism, and happy endings.

Her complete works were published in Granada between 1865 and 1867, in three volumes that included a portrait and a biography written by María del Pilar Sinués.

She maintained a romantic relationship with Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, which end due to incompatibility between her religiosity and the then militant atheism of the Accitan author.