José Augusto Escoto

Poet. Collaborated in important publications. Researched Cuban literature. Dedicated herself to criticism and literature.

She completed primary education in Matanzas. In 1880 she graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Instituto de La Habana and enrolled in Medicine, which she abandoned to dedicate herself to literature and criticism. In 1900 she succeeded Carlos M. Trelles as director of the Biblioteca Pública de Matanzas.

She collaborated in El Correo de Matanzas, Yucayo, El Republicano Conservador, Juventud, La Discusión, Revista de Instrucción Primaria, Cuba y América, Revista Bimestre Cubana (second epoch), where she published her research on Cuban history and literature.
She published historical, critical and bibliographic journal of Cuban literature (Matanzas, 1916) of which only four issues were published, in which she made known some important correspondence from Cuban letters.

In 1918 her "Contribution to the history of the first Franciscan Order on the Island of Cuba" was awarded, published in Chronicle of the historical-literary competition held in the city of La Habana on April 11, 1918, in homage to Cardinal Fray Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros on the fourth centenary of his death, which occurred in Roa on November 8, 1517 (La Habana, Editora El Debate, 1918, p. 417-491).
She contributed unpublished documents and wrote the introduction to the Complete Works of José Jacinto Milanés. Vol. 1. Poetry. (La Habana, Imp. El Siglo XX, 1920, p. IX-XXIX).

Collaborations
El Correo de Matanzas
Yucayo
El Republicano Conservador
Juventud
La Discusión
Revista de Instrucción Primaria
Cuba y América
Revista Bimestre Cubana (second epoch), where she published her research on Cuban history and literature.

Death
She died on February 2, 1935.

Work
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Unpublished letters and documents relating to her life in Cuba from 1859 to 1864, 1911.
The Macurije Indians in Haiti and Cuba, 1924.
Historical, critical and bibliographic journal of Cuban literature (Matanzas, 1916).

Awards
1918. Her Contribution to the history of the first Franciscan Order on the Island of Cuba was awarded, published in Chronicle of the historical-literary competition held in the City of La Habana on April 11, 1918, in homage to Cardinal Fray Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros on the fourth centenary of his death, which occurred in Roa on November 8, 1517 (La Habana, Editora El Debate, 1918, p. 417-491).

Contributions
She contributed unpublished documents and wrote the introduction to the Complete Works of José Jacinto Milanés. Vol. 1. Poetry. (La Habana, Imp. El Siglo XX, 1920, p. IX-XXIX).

Active Bibliography
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Unpublished letters and documents relating to her life in Cuba, 1859 to 1864
La Pluma de Oro, 1911
The Macurije Indians in Haiti and Cuba, 1924