Dámasa Cabezón

In 1832, together with her sister Manuela, Cabezón established a school for girls in Santiago, which she directed until 1845.^[4] In that year, she relocated to La Paz, Bolivia, where she was hired by the government of José Ballivián to establish an educational institute for women^[5] along the lines of her foundation in Chile.^[3] This institute educated, among others, the Bolivian composer Modesta Sanginés Uriarte.^[5] Having returned from Bolivia in 1848, she directed a school in La Serena for most of the 1850s before retiring to Valparaíso, where she died in March 1861.^[3] The historian Joyce Contreras Villalobos wrote that Cabezón's were the first attempts at establishing secular institutes for women's education in Chile.^[1]

• Contreras Villalobos, Joyce (2017). "Las transformaciones del campo cultural a mediados del siglo XIX y el surgimiento de una escritora moderna: Rosario Orrego de Uribe" (PDF). In Contreras Villalobos, Joyce; Ulloa Inostroza, Carla; Landeros Tiznado, Damaris (eds.). Escritoras chilenas del siglo XIX (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile. pp. 68–105.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ramos, Juan Pedro (1910). Historia de la instrucción primaria en la República Argentina 1810–1910 (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Buenos Aires.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• de la Taille, Alexandrina (2011). "Tras las huellas de la educación católica femenina en el siglo XIX. Mujeres y cultura". In Stuven, Anna María; Fermandois, Joaquín (eds.). Historia de las mujeres en Chile: Tomo I (in Spanish). Vol. 1 (Spanish ed.). Santiago de Chile. ISBN 9789563476910.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Urquidi, José Marcedonio (1919). Bolivianas ilustres (in Spanish). La Paz.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)