biography
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Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de (Countess of)
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pronunciation:
[pah(r)thoh bat
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1852–1921)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in La Coruña, NW Spain. The centre of a literary controversy in Spain when she championed Naturalism, her first novel was Pascual Lopez (1879). Her best-known works include Los pazos de Ulloa (1886, trans The Son of a Bondswoman), and La madre naturaleza (1887, Mother Nature). An ardent feminist, she also wrote plays, short stories, and literary criticism, and became professor of Romance literature at Madrid from 1916. |
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