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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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