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She was brought up by two aunts of her. Her father was a priest called José Martínez Viojo but he did not give up and saw to her education. Then she moved to Padrón with her aunt Teresa. Her mother lived there and she took the role of a mother and took care of her. They lived in Padrón and shortly after moved to Santiago, where she often visited the ‘Sociedade Económica de Amigos do País’ and attended the parties of the ‘Liceo da Xuventude’ at the old St Agustine Convent, where many intellectual young people such as Murguía, Aurelio Aguirre, and Pondal got together. In 1856, she moved to Madrid and lived with her mother's cousin. One year later, she met Manuel Murguía after his critics towards her first poetry book titled La flor and married in 1858 and moved to Santiago de Compostela. Next year their first daughter, Alejandra, was born. They lived later in different places because of Murguía's activities: A Coruña, Madrid, and Simancas. Rosalía is supposed to have written there the most part of the poems of her book Follas Novas. They travelled around Extremadura, Alicante and they also stayed in Lugo for a short period of time. However, they preferred A Coruña, Santiago, and Padrón, where she died in her house called A Matanza 15 July 1885. She was buried at the cemetery called Andina, which had already been described in the poems of Follas Novas. In 1891, her remains were moved to the Church of St Domingo in Santiago.
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