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Group of prominent Chileans

The Literary Society of 1842 (Spanish: Sociedad Literaria de 1842) was a group of prominent Chileans from the social, political, and literary fields. Its goals were promoting originality among the nation's writers, strengthening the social quality of literature, and rejecting foreign literary models.[1] The group held 86 meetings from 5 March 1842 to 1 August 1843.[2]

It had over 40 members, including the following:[2]

Andrés Bello Juan Bello Álvaro Covarrubias [es] Andrés Chacón Jacinto Chacón Juan N. Espejo Hermógenes Irisarri José Victorino Lastarria Santiago Lindsay Francisco Bilbao	Manuel Antonio Matta Anacleto Montt Pedro Palazuelos Aníbal Pinto Alejandro Reyes [es] Salvador Sanfuentes José M. Torres Cristóbal Valdés Wenceslao Vial Guzmán	José Victorino Lastarria

1. ^ Araneda Bravo, Fidel (1973). "Jose Victorino Lastarria y la Academia de Bellas Letras". Boletin de la Academia Chilena Correspondiente de la Real Academia Española [_Bulletin of the Chilean Academy Corresponding with the Royal Spanish Academy_] (in Spanish). Santiago: Instituto de Chile. pp. 117–118. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
2. ^ a b Rábago Cordero, Ana Silvia. "El concepto de literatura en Chile durante la década de 1840: José Victorino Lastarria y la Sociedad Literaria" [The concept of literature in Chile during the 1840s: José Victorino Lastarria and the Literary Society] (PDF) (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. pp. 29–31. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

• Wikibooks has a book on cultural transformations of Chile in the nineteenth century (in Spanish)
• Sociedad Literaria de 1842 at Memoria Chilena (in Spanish)