Isabel de Palencia (1878–1974)
Autore di Smouldering freedom; the story of the Spanish Republicans in exile
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Palencia, Isabel de
- Altri nomi
- Oyarzábal Smith, Isabel (birth name)
Oyarzábal de Palencia, Isabel - Data di nascita
- 1878-06-12
- Data di morte
- 1974
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Spain
- Luogo di nascita
- Málaga, Spain
- Luogo di morte
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Luogo di residenza
- Spain
Great Britain
Sweden
Mexico City, Mexico - Istruzione
- convent school
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
translator
actress
diplomat
children's writer
founder and principle writer of the women's journal, La Dama (mostra tutto 10)
magazine writer
teacher
autobiographer
novelist - Relazioni
- Palencia, Ceferino (husband)
- Organizzazioni
- Socialist Women's Party of Spain
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Spain's envoy to the League of Nations
Ambassador of the Spanish Republic in Sweden
Spanish emissary to Finland - Breve biografia
- Isabel de Palencia, born Isabel Oyarzábal Smith, was born in Spain to a Scottish mother and a Spanish father of Basque origin. She began working as a Spanish language teacher in England and originally wanted a career as an actress. She met Ceferino Palencia, a dramatist, who cast her in his play Pepita Tudó. The couple were married in 1909. With her friend Raimunda Avecilla and her sister Ana Oyarzábal, Isabel co-founded and edited the first women's political magazine in Spain, La Dama, for which she was the principal writer. She also was a pioneering female journalist for Spanish and British newspapers. She was active in the Socialist Workers Party and the women's movement in Spain. In the 1930s, she became a diplomatic envoy and was the first woman to serve as a Spanish ambassador. She remained faithful to the Republic during the Spanish Civil War, and at its conclusion was forced into exile in Mexico. There she made a living as a writer, particularly of children's stories. She published two volumes of autobiography, I Must Have Liberty (1940) and Smouldering Freedom (1945).
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