biography
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Trueba y Cossío, Joaquín Teléforo de
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pronunciation:
[trooayba ee kosee
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| male
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| lived:
| (1799–1835)
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| biography:
| Novelist and playwright, born in Santander, N Spain. He emigrated to England in 1823 because of his opposition to Spanish absolutism, and there wrote novels and plays in English, most of which he later translated into Castilian. The Romance of the History of Spain (1827) retells a number of legends in the Romantic style then in vogue. He wrote the first Spanish Romantic historical novel, in the style of Sir Walter Scott, Gómez Arias (1828; Spanish edn, 1831). Later novels include The Castilian (1829), The Exquisites (1831), and The Incognitos (1831). In 1834 he returned to Spain, where his La España romántica, a version of The Romance ...., appeared in 1840 (4 vols). He also wrote plays in the manner of Scott, such as Elvira, and in the manner of Leandro Fernández de Moratín, such as Call Again Tomorrow (1832). |
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