Dolores María Ximeno Cruz

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She belonged to a wealthy family from Matanzas. She studied at the Colegio de Santa Clotilde in Matanzas. At fifteen years old she took a brief recreational trip to the United States.

Of fine sensibility, she cultivated a circle of friendships; in the literary gatherings that took place in her house, among others, Nicolás Heredia and Vidal Morales y Morales usually attended.

She married the erudite and bibliographer José Augusto Escoto, in whose historical, critical and bibliographic review of Cuban literature, her letter to "María" was published, in which she refers to the causes of the madness of José Jacinto Milanés.

Dolores María de Ximeno, author of "The Memoirs of María Lola", which Revista Bimestre Cubana published under the title of "Those Times", offers us in that work interesting details of life in Matanzas in the second half of the past century, and in chapter VIII she depicts the seasons of the Matanzas aristocracy in "La Cumbre".
It was in those gatherings of "respectable people" where poetry was recited, music was made and songs were sung, where the danzón emerged, our typical dance—which apparently is in decline, that danzón whose origins so few know.

Dolores Ximeno also collaborated in El Fígaro, Archivos del Folklore Cubano and in the magazine Bimestre Cubana, where she published "Memoirs of Lola María" with a prologue by Don Fernando Ortiz.