Enriqueta Pinto

Pinto was born in Tucumán, United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day, Argentina) to Francisco Antonio Pinto, a lawyer, military general, politician and future 3rd President of Chile, and Luisa Garmendia, the future First Lady and founder of the Pinto political dynasty.^{[1][2][4][5][6]} Pinto was the older sister of Aníbal Pinto, a lawyer, politician and 9th President of Chile.^[4][7]

On 20 July 1841, Pinto married Manuel Bulnes, a military officer, politician and future 5th President of Chile.^[2] Pinto and Bulnes had eight children^[2], including:

• Manuel Bulnes Pinto (1842–1899), military officer and politician; married Elena Calvo Cruchaga.^[8]
• Lucia Bulnes de Vergara (1845–1932), writer; married Ruperto Vergara Rencoret (1835-1908).^[9]
• Gonzalo Bulnes Pinto [es] (1851–1936), journalist, historian and politician; married Carmela Correa Sanfuentes.^[10]

Pinto was fluent in English and French.^[1] In 1859, Pinto translated the second edition of Manual for a Christian Woman by Abbot Frédéric Édouard Chassan.^[1]

Pinto was a member of the Literary Society of the Catholic University of Louvain, the Parisian Academy of Teaching, the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Caen, and the Société nationale académique de Cherbourg [fr].^[3]