the time. Personal life After remaining stubbornly single until age 36, in 1886 she married Rafael María Leyba Amarante, who was 11 years her junior. He died in 1909, and while the couple left no officially known descendants, the possible existence of heirs to Amelia Francasci has been rumored in the past. Though much of her correspondence was lost in 1930 Dominican Republic hurricane, she left behind a great many love letters addressed to the French author Pierre Loti, though it is disputed whether her epistolary relationship with the faraway writer was a cover for another romance. After her husband's death, Francasci lived an almost completely isolated life. For decades, she rarely left her house in Santo Domingo's Ciudad Colonial neighborhood, where she remained until her death in 1941. A street in Santo Domingo, in the Los Prados neighborhood, is named Calle Amelia Francasci in her honor. Selected works Madre culpable (1892) Francisca Martinoff (1901) Recuerdos e impresiones: historia de una novella (1901) Cierzo en primavera (1902) Monseñor de Meriño intimo (1926) External links Amelia Francasci on WorldCat References 1850 births 1941 deaths Dominican Republic women writers Dominican Republic novelists Jewish women writers Dominican Republic people of Spanish descent Dominican Republic people of Jewish descent Dominican Republic people of Dutch-Jewish descent White Dominicans