During her lifetime, she amassed an extensive body of written work that, after her death, her brother Luis Alberto published in two books named Cofre Romántico and La Bella Durmiente.

Miguel Ángel Casares Viteri composed the music, inspired by the poem and dismayed by the damage caused by a flood of the Chanchán River.

[2] In Ecuador, she was influenced by the modernist literary movement known as the "generación decapitada", which included Medardo Ángel Silva, Arturo Borja (her second cousin), Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño, and Humberto Fierro.

The Casa de la Cultura in Chimborazo created a library named for the poet,[2] in a building ceded by the City Council of Riobamba on 21 April 1954.

[3] Considered a classic of its kind, the pasillo "Lamparilla" has been traditionally played by the most important singers and musical groups in Ecuador, as well as by prominent vocalists from other countries.