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+ | * Clémessy, Nelly: ''Emilia Pardo Bazán, romancière (la critique, la théorie, la pratique)''. Paris: Centre de Recherches Hispaniques, 1973.<br> | ||
+ | * Faus, Pilar: ''Emilia Pardo Bazán: su época, su vida, su obra''. La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 2005. (2 vols.)<br> | ||
+ | * Tolliver, Joyce: ''Cigar Smoke and Violet Water: Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán''. Lewisburgh: Bucknell University Press, 1998.<br><br> | ||
+ | * <http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/pardo_bazan/index.shtml Biblioteca virtual de la autora><br> | ||
+ | * <http://www.museosdeescritores.com/ESP_II/autor/pardobazan.htm Casa-Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán><br> | ||
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* [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Portraits Portraits of Authors]: Emilia Pardo Bazan ><br><br> | * [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Portraits Portraits of Authors]: Emilia Pardo Bazan ><br><br> |
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Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish author, 1851-1921
by Henriette Partzsch, University of St. Andrews
One of Pardo Bazán's most defining traits were her intellectual curiosity and her openness to new ideas and other cultures. She travelled extensively through Europe - in the early 1870s with her husband and parents and later, after their separation, on her own. Travelling fuelled her interest in modern languages and the literary and intellectual currents in France, Germany and England. Back in Spain after her journeys she became very interested in philosophy and was involved in the pedagogical reform movement inspired by the works of the German philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. A committed Catholic, she nevertheless defended aspects of Émile Zola's naturalism in her influential essay series La cuestión palpitante (“The Burning Question”) (1882-83), adapting the French author's techniques in what probably is today her best known novel, Los Pazos de Ulloa (“The House of Ulloa”) (1886). However, she could never be reduced to naturalist orthodoxy. In her ca. 600 short stories and 18 novels, she experimented with different narrative strategies and approaches to literature. This openness is also reflected in her keen interest in the Russian novelists such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, whom she promoted in Spain through public lectures which were later collected in a book.
Pardo Bazán was also a prolific journalist, foreign correspondent and adventurous publisher. One of her most interesting publishing enterprises was without doubt the Biblioteca de la Mujer (“The Woman's Library”), a series in which she edited side by side María de Ágreda's life of the Virgin Mary, a translation of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women, August Bebel's Women under Socialism, novellas by the Spanish baroque writer María de Zayas and two books on cookery.
Sources
Further Reading:
- Clémessy, Nelly: Emilia Pardo Bazán, romancière (la critique, la théorie, la pratique). Paris: Centre de Recherches Hispaniques, 1973.
- Faus, Pilar: Emilia Pardo Bazán: su época, su vida, su obra. La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 2005. (2 vols.)
- Tolliver, Joyce: Cigar Smoke and Violet Water: Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Lewisburgh: Bucknell University Press, 1998.
- <http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/pardo_bazan/index.shtml Biblioteca virtual de la autora>
- <http://www.museosdeescritores.com/ESP_II/autor/pardobazan.htm Casa-Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán>
AsK May 2011
- Portraits of Authors: Emilia Pardo Bazan >