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"The difficulties of SUR in the book business in the Spanish-speaking world can be traced to the combination of piracy and restrictive import licenses. These economic factors were compounded by the overt efforts of writers such as Neruda who systematically organized against Ocampo’s projects in the book business; see King, Sur, pg 141"
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"Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were freer than most Latin American women, but they still used the privacy of their letters to treasure their relatedness to one another, to authorize their own American identities, and to construct a corresponding space in which to nurture a better future for their America."

"Epistolary literature is a vital but much neglected source of information and insight into the lives of women, particularly where access to public discourse has been subject to gender restrictions."