Dr Kirsty Hooper,
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Why this project? When
we look at the official record, it can seem that women writers disappeared
from cultural and intellectual life in
Left to right: Gimeno, Acuña, Dato, Biedma,
Casanova, de los Ríos, de la Prada What’s the project about? Although
we know very little about them, many women were reading, writing, publishing,
and commentating in Spain on issues of
individual, social, local, and national interest throughout the decades
around the turn of the 20th century. My research has led me to archives,
libraries and catalogues that contain works by scores of women who wrote,
translated, published, lectured and taught, but whose names have simply been
erased from the historical record - if indeed they ever appeared there at
all. Further difficulties arise because so few of these women published the
right kind of thing in the right kind of place to be considered writers, as
the term is traditionally understood. If we are to gain a fuller
understanding of female intellectual culture and its relations with local and
national intellectual culture, we need to look not only at academic and
imaginative writers, but also the authors of religious and autobiographical
texts, children’s literature and conduct books, journalists, translators,
educationalists and others, all of whom contributed, in different ways, to
the formation of modern Spain. How does it work? The
aim of these webpages is to make available basic information about these
women and their work, to provide a clearer picture than we currently have of
exactly who was out there and what they were writing. At the moment, I’m
doing this primarily by gathering together biographical information and
bibliographical references, and linking to existing primary and secondary
material. I’m collecting information about women regardless of the
language(s) they published in, although my own research interests mean
Galician, Spanish, and Asturian are particularly well represented. The
content of individual author pages will vary according to the resources
available. The index is constantly growing as more authors and author pages
are added, so please check back often! |
This project
aims to make available up-to-date bio-bibliographical information about women
intellectuals active in 310 and counting! Author
pages
Useful Links |
Last updated by Kirsty Hooper on Wednesday, 01 September 2010