 María Enriqueta Camarillo was one of a number of women writers to gain prominence in Mexico at the end of the 19th century.While she wrote a number of works such as "Jirón del mundo", "Sorpresas de la vida" and "El Secreto", she is best known for "Rosas de la infancia", with which many Mexicans learned to read.Writers born at the end of the 19th century, such as Gregorio López y Fuentes, Manuel Maples Arce and Jorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit were often concerned with social issues.