2.3.5.4 The novelistic production of Ramón Piña (1819 – 1861)

2.3.5.5 A Charity Fair in 183… A story from Camagüey, by José Ramón Betancourt (1822 – 1890)

2.3.5.6 The Havana Forum and its Mysteries; or, an Official of Causes, a novel attributed to Franchi Alfaro and published in 1846

2.3.6 The theme of slavery in Cuban literature, some significant works

2.3.6.1 Autobiography, by Juan Francisco Manzano (1797 – 1854) and his lyrical work

2.3.6.2 The narrative of Pedro José Morillas (1803 – 1881), author of “El Ranchador”

2.3.4 The narrative prose of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814 – 1873), main texts

2.3.5 The emergence of the novel as a genre in the 19th century

2.3.5.1 The Fatalist, by Esteban Pichardo Tapia (1799 – 1879)

2.3.5.2 The work “Florentina, social scenes”, by Manuel Costales y Govantes (1815 – 1866)

2.3.3 The narrative work of Cirilo Villaverde (1812 – 1894)

2.3.3.1 The novel “Cecilia Valdés or the Angel’s Hill”, published by Cirilo Villaverde in 1882