Writer, spiritist and anti-clerical activist, Francisca Suárez González belonged to the first group of Puerto Rican spiritists; a group of educated women, active in spiritism study and experimentation. The daughter of Antonio Suárez and Rafaela González, a native of San Thomas, Suárez was blind, but received her early education from her mother, who was an obstetrician, although they lived modestly. Like Agustina Guffain, Simplicia Armstrong de Ramú and Dolores Baldoni, she belonged to the editorial board of El Iris de Paz, a spiritism magazine directed by Guffain that was published in Puerto Rico between 1899-1912. Francisca Suárez was noted for publishing dictations from beyond the grave. She was a semi-mechanical medium and her works, published in Puerto Rico, were disseminated throughout the island free of charge in support of spiritism propaganda. Suarez studied and practised Kardecian Spiritism. She absolutely defended the value and dignity of the poor and of women and devoted himself ardently to the experimental side of Spiritism. She helped to sustain and transform Puerto Rican society during the colonial transition from Spain to the United States, offering a hopeful vision based on a rational and equitable Spiritist morality. Through her literature and journalistic writing she produced a counter-discourse in which women played a leading role that promised to transform the spaces where Puerto Rican society produced its laws and norms: in the home, the church, and the state....