Enriqueta Peptitpas Cotton (born 1900;[2][3] year of death unknown), better known as Henriette Morvan or Damita Duende, was a Chilean journalist, writer, and editor.
[9] She was linked to other authors of the time, such as Ernesto Montenegro with his 1930 work Cuentos de mi Tío Ventura,[9] Blanca Santa Cruz Ossa with her compilations of myths and legends (beginning in 1929), and Marta Brunet with Cuentos para Marisol (also published in 1938).
[8] Together with Blanca Santa Cruz Ossa and her sister Elvira, Morvan was one of the main collectors and disseminators of children's literature in Chile in the late 1930s and 1940s.
[7][10] In addition, her work is included in a group of authors "whose main concern was to educate by more didactic methods," among whom was Ester Cosani.
[8] In the late 1930s she began a series of contributions to the magazine Zig-Zag [es] as part of a collection titled "Damita Duente" – her pseudonym from then on – which included a compilation of legends and fables.