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Born in the Galician city of A Coruña in 1861,
Sofía Casanova was a hugely prolific and critically
acclaimed poet, novelist, playwright, travel writer, journalist and social
campaigner. She published regularly in Spain between the 1870s and the
1940s, despite living mainly abroad after her marriage to the Polish philosopher
Wincenty Lutosławski
in 1887. Her works, which were frequently reviewed in the mainstream press
and often went into several editions, include four collections of poetry,
five full-length novels, eight novellas, short stories, a play, a children’s
book and eight volumes of social, cultural and political commentary, not to
mention over a thousand articles in Galician, Spanish, Spanish-American and
Polish newspapers and journals. She regularly lectured on women’s issues and
on international relations in both Spain and Poland, translated classic works
from Polish and Russian into Spanish, and for twenty years (1915-1936) wrote
a regular column from Eastern Europe for the Spanish newspaper ABC.
The links on
the right take you to my bibliography of Casanova's works, based on
bibliographical research in the Biblioteca
Xeral in Santiago de Compostela,
the Biblioteca Nacional in
Madrid, the Biblioteka
Narodowa in Warsaw, and the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in
Krakow, as well as at the Bodleian Library in Oxford
and the British Library in London.
This comprehensive - if still not entirely complete - bibliography, is, as
far as I know, the most complete and accurate in existence. Work still
remains to be done in Polish newspaper archives to find the articles Casanova
wrote on events in Barcelona
in 1909 for several Polish newspapers, as well as other articles of which I
may not be aware.
Each of the
sections includes basic bibliographical information, most of which has been
double checked for accuracy: there are still some texts that I have been
unable to see first-hand, and I will verify them as soon as I can. Be aware
that some of the bibliography pages are quite long! For more detailed
information about any of these texts (including library holdings), please
feel free to contact me.
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