María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

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Biography

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was a Californio author and intellectual, best known as the first female Mexican-American writer to be published in English. During her career, she published two books: Who Would Have Thought It? (1872) and The Squatter and the Don (1885); and one play: Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts: Taken From Cervantes' Novel of That Name (1876).

Books by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Who Would Have Thought It?Who Would Have Thought It?
Who Would Have Thought It?Who Would Have Thought It?
The Squatter and the DonThe Squatter and the Don
Conflicts of InterestConflicts of Interest
The Squatter and the DonThe Squatter and the Don
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Quotes by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

"Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons."

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton