El “debut literario” de la Condesa de Vilches

  1. Mariángeles Pérez-Martín 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Book:
Las inéditas: voces femeninas más allá del silencio
  1. Romano, Yolanda (coord.)
  2. Velázquez García, Sara (coord.)

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca ; Universidad de Salamanca

ISBN: 978-84-9012-887-9

Year of publication: 2018

Pages: 193-205

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

Amalia de Llano y Dotres, I countess of Vilches, was a relevant woman in Elizabethan Madrid, but her figure as a cultural agent and woman of letters has gone unnoticed for historiography. Her novels, Ledia (1868) and Berta (1873), published under the pseudonym (Countess of ***) remain relegated to anonymity. Although her popular image immortalized in 1853 by Federico de Of its cultural relevance, it tells the eloquent critic of Luis Vidart, [A literary debut. Ledia, novel by the Countess of ***](1869), where he extols the literary qualities of the countess above illustrious writers like the Duke of Rivas