Nicolasa Montt (née, Nicolasa Montt Barros; after marriage, Nicolasa Montt de Marambio; Freirina, 1857–1924) was a Chilean poet who published in regional newspapers and books.
[1][2][3][4] Along with the Atacama writer Mercedes Marín del Solar and the Copapina Rosario Orrego, Montt is considered one of the pioneers in the field of women's poetry and writing in Chile.
[9] Montt made his debut in literature probably between 1891 and 1901, a period in which texts by Mercedes Belzú de Dorado, Rosa Araneda, Victoria Sainte-Marie, Sara María García de Arias, Graciela Sotomayor, Laura Bustos, and Cristina Otaegui, among others, were published.
[10] Her work was characterized by the use of a personal language mainly due to the "absence of women from the cultural space due to the prevailing patriarchalism and the conservatism of Chilean political and social institutions" present at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.
[12][14] As a translator, she dealt mainly with French texts by Enrique Conscience[3] and Nanine Sauvestre, among others.