#Emilia Pardo Bazán

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there is nothing more dangerous than what is repressed and hidden, what remains inside.

— Emilia Pardo Bazán, Insolación

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This is Concepció Aleixandre (1862-1952). She was a Valencian doctor, inventor and teacher who was one of the first female gynaecologists and who pioneered working in favour of women’s health in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly working in favour of better health for poor women.

In 1875, the Spanish professional medical magazine El Siglo Médico said that “because of physiological laws, the woman-doctor is a dubious being, a hermaphrodite or a sex-less being or, in any case, a monster”. Only 14 years after this, there were already 5 women who graduated in Medicine: 3 from the University of Barcelona and 2 from the University of València. One of them was Concepció Aleixandre.

She was born in a wealthy family from València who let her study. She graduated high school with the highest grade in all subjects and then studied to become a teacher (which was considered a women’s job), again with the highest grade in all subjects, but immediately after graduating she tried to enrol to become one of the first women to study medicine in the University of València. After many issues with the university’s management, which wasn’t used to allowing women to study, she was allowed and was one of the brightest in her class. She got her license in Medicine and Surgery in 1899 - once again, with the highest grade in most subjects - and decided to specialize in Gynaecology. Ironically, at first Spain’s Gynaecological Society did not allow her because they did not allow women, but eventually they changed their mind and she became the first woman member of Spain’s Gynaecological Society.

She moved to Madrid to work in a hospital, but at the same time opened a private clinic where she attended patients for free or adapting the price to their economic situation. Her attention became famous because of her warmth and closeness with the patients and their children, who could go to the office to hundreds in a single day.

She also worked to promote hygiene, took part in scientific and medical research, and worked for women’s rights. She was vice-president of the feminist organization National Council of Women, she was president of the Women’s Committee for the People’s Hygiene, of the Ladies’ Section of the Ibero-American Union, and in 1928 she was declared honorary president of the Association of Spanish Women Doctors. In 1926, still in Madrid, she founded the Lyceum Club Femenino, which was the first feminist club in Spain. She also spoke in favour of women’s right to vote and gave conferences and wrote articles to promote hygienic knowledge for the health of women and children. To continue this work, between 1916 and 1920 she ran a section about women’s health in the magazine La Medicina Social Española.

Concepció Aleixandre also campaigned for women to have access to education and culture. For this reason, she founded the People’s Ibero-American Centre to promote the education of women in the Iberian peninsula and Latin America, and campaigned in favour of the Galician writer (in Spanish language) Emilia Pardo Bazán being admitted in the Royal Spanish Academy of language in 1912, but she was again denied access as she had already been denied in 1889 and 1892. The first woman to become a member of the Royal Spanish Academy would only arrive in 1979 (Carmen Conde).

Sources: Diari La Veu, Sàpiens.

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || November || 3 || Older than me

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Emilia Pardo Bazán

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If you are in Madrid and you're looking for any cultural activities to do during weekends, let me tell you about Rutas teatrales. It's a very good group that organise themed guided routes around Madrid, among other things, mainly about writers and artists from 19 th and 20th centuries: Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Federico García Lorca, María Teresa León, Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Margarita Xirgu, Concha Méndez, Josefina de la Torre...

Guided and dramatized tours: The Madrid of Lorca; Las Sinsombrero and Lorca; The Summer Theatres; World Theater Day; Galdós, a playwright in Madrid; Doña Emilia

Spectator School (videos): The History of Theatre Pavón: Theatre in New York; Discover María Guerrero; Discovering Federico García Lorca; Theatre in Buenos Aires; How to write a play; Presents! Women in the city; Meetings with artists;The Madrid of Galdós; Theatre in London; Benilde de Patricia Suárez; Discovering Victorina Durán

Theatrical outings: Independent Theater Route; New Dramaturgies Route; Lorca Route

Online courses: Lorca and his theatre

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Got a pretty good haul of books today in Wicker Park.

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La cita y otros cuentos de terror, reseña breve

Leí  La cita y otros cuentos de terror de Emilia Pardo Bazán. El libro es de Nórdica, así que la edición es muy linda, es garantía, además de unas ilustraciones preciosas y funciona perfecto como objeto de conmemoración del centenario de la muerte de la escritora.

Sin embargo, el libro en sí, como antología no me gustó del todo.

En la introducción la compiladora habla de la extensa, muy extensa, obra de doña Emilia y, por ende, de lo difícil que fue elegir apenas un puñado de entre tantos cuentos. No sólo le creo, sino que siempre es difícil elegir lo mejor o que el juicio personal considere algo como lo mejor. El pero es el siguiente.

El libro se llama La cita y otros cuentos de terror. Terror. Ese es el tipo de cuentos que debe haber en la antología. Es el hilo conductor, pero en realidad hay algunos cuentos ciertamente de terror, pero la mayoría son de misterio, cuyos elementos ni por asomo se relacionan con algo terrorífico o sobrenatural. Mucho menos el cuento que se llama “La confianza”, que no va a ninguno de los dos lugares, ni al misterio ni al terror, es otra cosa.

Así que creo, sostengo, que es una mala antología. Vale la pena la edición, mucho, pero en cuanto a la antología, no. Care Santos se quedó corta o le ganó el entusiasmo, pero no considero que haya hecho un gran trabajo en esta ocasión.

Pardo Bazán, Emilia, La cita y otros cuentos de terror, Nórdica libros, 2021.

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Sección de libros: Feminismo para principiantes, de Nuria Varela

En la primera planta del edificio donde trabajo, en el pasillo que da acceso a los distintos cubículos donde desempeñamos con mayor o menor acierto nuestro trabajo, existe una estantería en la que reposaban en su balda inferior varios ejemplares de un pequeño libro de color amarillo cuyo título me había llamado la atención. Tras haber bajado en alguna ocasión y haberlos visto allí sin que…

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Got a reading assignment. I'm a very slow reader due to attention issues and I thought I really wouldn't like it since it's a historical novel and in Spanish, which means I have to pay more attention since I'm "only" at C1 level.

Well, chapter II and I'm already hooked.

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twenty books in spanish, tbr

for when i'm fluent!! most with translations in english.

Sistema Nervoso, Lina Meruane (2021) - Latin American literature professor from Chile, contemporary litfic

Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio, Andrea Chapela (2020) - short story collection from a Mexican scifi author, likened to Black Mirror

Nuestra parte de noche, Mariana Enríquez (2019) - very long literary horror novel by incredibly famous Argentine journalist 

Canto yo y la montaña baila, Irene Solà (2019) - translated into Spanish from Castilian by Concha Cardeñoso, contemporary litfic

Las malas, Camila Sosa Villada (2019) - very well rated memoir/autofiction from a trans Argentine author

Humo, Gabriela Alemán (2017) - short litfic set in Paraguay, by Ecuadoran author

La dimensión desconocida, Nona Fernández (2016) - really anything by this Chilean actress/writer; this one is a Pinochet-era historical fiction & v short

Distancia de rescate, Samanta Schweblin (2014) - super short litfic by an Argentinian author based in Germany, loved Fever Dream in English

La ridícula idea de no volver a verte, Rosa Montero (2013) - nonfiction; Spanish author discusses scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie and through Curie, her own life

Lágrimas en la lluvia, Rosa Montero (2011) - sff trilogy by a Spanish journalist

Los peligros de fumar en la cama, Mariana Enríquez (2009) - short story collection, author noted above

Delirio, Laura Restrepo (2004) - most popular book (maybe) by an award-winning Colombian author; literary fiction

Todos los amores, Carmen Boullosa (1998) - poetry! very popular Mexican author, really open to anything on the backlist this is just inexpensive used online

Olvidado rey Gudú, Ana María Matute (1997) - cult classic, medieval fantasy-ish, award-winning Spanish author

Como agua para chocolate, Laura Esquivel (1989) - v famous novel by v famous Mexican author

Ekomo, María Nsué Angüe (1985) - super short litfic about woman's family, post-colonial Equatoguinean novel; out of print

La casa de los espíritus, Isabelle Allende (1982) - or really anything by her, Chilean author known for magical realism; read in English & didn't particularly love but would be willing to give it another try

Nada, Carmen Laforet (1945) - Spanish author who wrote after the Spanish civil war, v famous novel

Los pazos de Ulloa, Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886) - book one in a family drama literary fiction duology by a famous Galician author, pretty dense compared to the above

La Respuesta, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1691) -  i actually have a bilingual poetry collection from our favorite 17th century feminist Mexican nun; this is an essay defending the right of women to be engaged in intellectual work (& it includes some poems)

bookmarked websites:

Separata Árabe, linked by Arablit

reading challenge Un viaje por la literatura en español

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The 'Timeless Classics' series by RBA stands as a commendable collection of 85 literary masterpieces, predominantly drawn from English literature, with notable inclusions such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina from diverse cultural landscapes. This curated anthology transcends geographical boundaries, making its enriching content accessible not only in various European countries under the names of ''Storie Senza Tempo'', ''Romans Eternels'', and ''Novelas Eternas'' but also in South America. RBA's commitment to delivering these cultural gems on a global scale reflects a dedication to fostering a profound appreciation for literature across diverse audiences.

Here are all the titles of the following collection: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence

Jane Austen - Emma

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 1)

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey

Thomas Hardy - Far from The Madding Crowd

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 1)

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 2)

Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons Alexandre Dumas fils - The Lady of the Camellias

Henry James - Washington Square

Louisa May Alcott - A Garland For Girls

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 1)

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Lady Susan. The Watson. Sanditon

Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbeville

Edith Wharton - The Mother’s Recompense

Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders

Henry James - The Wings of the Dove

Edith Wharton - The Customs of the Country

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Jane Austen - Juvenilia

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 1)

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 2)

George Sand - Nanon

Henry James - The Ambassadors

Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford

Thomas Hardy - Under The Greenwood Tree

Edith Wharton - Summer

George Sand - Indiana

Henry James - The Bostonians

George Eliot - Silas Marner

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 1)

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 2)

Edith Wharton - The Twilight Sleep

Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton

Fanny Burney - Evelina

George Sand - Little Fadette

Emily Eden - The Semi-detached House

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley I

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley II

Daniel Defoe - Lady Roxana

Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest

Edith Wharton - The Cliff

Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady of Quality

Louisa May Alcott - Moods

Lucy Maud Montgomery - The Story Girl

Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

Matilde Serao - Fantasy

Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes

Emilia Pardo Bazán - Sunstroke

Ann Radcliffe - The Romance Of The Forest

Louisa May Alcott - A Long Fatal

Charlotte Bronte - Villette

Sybil G. Brinton - Old Friends and New Fancies

Edith Wharton - The Bunner

Sisters Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out

Margaret Oliphant - The Chronicles of Carlingford

Edith Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist

Virginia Woolf - Day and Night

Guy de Maupassant - Our Heart

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 1)

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 2)

Elizabeth Gaskell - Half a Lifetime Ago

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Mi colaboración para la exposición del festival Sinsal de este año, que trata sobre la historia de la música grabada en Galicia a través de ocho personalidades que tuvieron relación con la misma, desde el siglo XVII hasta el siglo XX. Domingo Martínez de Presa, Severino Pérez Vázquez, Andrés Avelino Comerma i Batalla, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Enrique Labarta Pose, Maruja Boga, Pedro Ferrer o Portela Seijo.

Muy bien acompañada de Emma Roulette, Begoña García-Alén González, Marta Cartu, Santi Zubizarreta, Andrés Magán, Rapapawn (Cynthia Alfonso y Óscar Raña) y Mar Mascaró.

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Emilia Pardo Bazán, en su nueva transmutación, el día que logre entrar en la Real Academia de la Lengua.

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Getting whiplash can be as easy as seeing Emilia Pardo Bazán in an article in English being referred as Emilia Bazán Pardo.

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“Vivir es tener opiniones, deberes, aspiraciones, ideas".

Emilia Pardo Bazán.

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Reading List - Lista para Leer

Aves sin nido Clorinda Matto de Turner

Dom Casmurro Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Ariel José Enrique Rodó

El Moto Joaquin Garcia Monge

La amada inmóvil Amado Nervo

Desolación Gabriela Mistral

La señorita Etcétera Arqueles Vela

La vorágine José Eustasio Rivera

Doña Bárbara Rómulo Gallegos

Cuentos de Amor, de Locura y de Muerte Horacio Quiroga

Other selected works

Isabel Allende, “Dos palabras”

Anónimo, “Romance de la pérdida de Alhama”

Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes (Prólogo; Tratados 1, 2, 3, 7)

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rima LIII (“Volverán las oscuras golondrinas”)

Jorge Luis Borges, “Borges y yo”

Jorge Luis Borges, “El Sur”

Julia de Burgos, “A Julia de Burgos”

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote (Primera parte, capítulos 1–5, 8 y 9; Segunda parte, capítulo 74)

Julio Cortázar, “La noche boca arriba”

Hernán Cortés, “Segunda carta de relación” (selecciones)

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Hombres necios que acusáis”

Rubén Darío, “A Roosevelt”

Don Juan Manuel, Conde Lucanor, Exemplo XXXV (“De lo que aconteció a un mozo que casó con una mujer muy fuerte y muy brava”)

Osvaldo Dragún, El hombre que se convirtió en perro

Carlos Fuentes, “Chac Mool”

Federico García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba

Federico García Lorca, “Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla”

Gabriel García Márquez, “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”

Gabriel García Márquez, “La siesta del martes”

Garcilaso de la Vega, Soneto XXIII (“En tanto que de rosa y azucena”)

Luis de Góngora, Soneto CLXVI (“Mientras por competir con tu cabello”)

Nicolás Guillén, “Balada de los dos abuelos”

José María Heredia, “En una tempestad”

Miguel León-Portilla, Visión de los vencidos (dos secciones: “Los presagios, según los informantes de Sahagún” y “Se ha perdido el pueblo mexica”)

Antonio Machado, “He andado muchos caminos”

José Martí, “Nuestra América”

Rosa Montero, “Como la vida misma”

Nancy Morejón, “Mujer negra”

Pablo Neruda, “Walking around”

Emilia Pardo Bazán, “Las medias rojas”

Francisco de Quevedo, Salmo XVII (“Miré los muros de la patria mía”)

Horacio Quiroga, “El hijo”

Tomás Rivera, . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra (dos capítulos: “... y no se lo tragó la tierra” y “La noche buena”)

Juan Rulfo, “No oyes ladrar los perros”

Alfonsina Storni, “Peso ancestral”

Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra

Sabine Ulibarrí, “Mi caballo mago”

Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir