Emilia Pardo Baz n was born in the Galician town of A Coru a into a noble family who nurtured her lifelong thirst for knowledge. She is undoubtedly the most controversial, influential and prolific Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, publishing a vast number of essays, social commentaries, articles, reviews, poems, plays, novels, novellas and short stories.
Her third novel, La Tribuna, heralds a new age in Spanish literature,...