The exhibition explores the multifaceted character of Emilia Pardo Bazán (La Coruña, 1851-Madrid, 1921), novelist, influential cultural and political journalist, critic and historian of literature, playwright, prolific and decidedly modern short story writer; cultural entrepreneur with a magazine and a publishing house -Nuevo Teatro Critico and La Biblioteca de la Mujer, 1890- which were pioneers in the dissemination in Spain of Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Turgenev) and of the French and British debates on feminism , with the translation and commentary of the works of John Stuart Mill and August Bebel.
The exhibition seeks to convey to viewers, in a visually expressive way, a work and a life that are crucial to review and update the literary and intellectual history of the last third of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. To do this, it brings together some two hundred works including printed books, manuscripts, engravings and photographs, among others, from both the National Library of Spain and other institutions.
The exhibition seeks to convey to viewers, in a visually expressive way, a work and a life that are crucial to review and update the literary and intellectual history of the last third of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. To do this, it brings together some two hundred works including printed books, manuscripts, engravings and photographs, among others, from both the National Library of Spain and other institutions.
