Emilia Pardo Bazán - A Coruña, Galicia, España - Civil Rights Memorials on Waymarking.com

"Emilia Pardo-Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa, born in A Coruña on September 16, 1851 and died in Madrid on May 12, 1921, was a Castilian writer, intellectual, journalist, literary critic, narrator and Galician regionalist who It has prevailed in Spanish Literature like writer and public figure. Influenced by naturalism, a literary movement he would introduce in Spain, he wrote more than 500 works in the form of novels, short stories, articles and pamphlets. In recognition by its artistic merits, the king would grant Alfonso XIII to him in 1908 the title of countess of Brown Bazan.

His style was energetic and in him he delved into problems and difficult situations. He wrote hundreds of short stories that he published in schools, such as Cuentos de Marineda. He stood out above all in his literary production, highlighting novels such as Un viaje de novios or La tribuna, the most naturalistic of his novels, where he describes the hard proletarian life in a tobacco factory. Also very important are Os pazos de Ulloa and La madre Naturaleza, where he portrayed life in Galician towns and villages, popular folklore and also the decline of the rural Pacega nobility with a passionate and sometimes violent plot.

He also highlights his work in the creation of the Real Academia Galega, creating together with Ramón Pérez Costales a Management Commission based on the Galician Folklore Society for the creation of the academy. Later her daughter donated the family residence of A Coruña, the House Museum of Emilia Pardo Bazán, to establish the headquarters of the institution there.

Today, Pardo Bazán, like other contemporaries such as the enlightened Galician Concepción Arenal, is considered one of the forerunners of the feminist movement in Spain. Throughout his work he criticized the degradation and marginality of women and expressed his desire to create for women an education and intellectual training equal to that of men.

At a time when more than 90% of women were illiterate, Pardo Bazán became the first woman to chair the Literature Section at the Ateneo de Madrid, the first appointed Minister of Public Instruction and the first woman professor of Contemporary Literature at Neo-Latin languages ??of the Central University of Madrid."

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Civil Right Type: Gender Equality (includes women's suffrage)

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