A selection of poems from a poet writing at the turn of the twentieth century.

At the end of the nineteenth century Emilia Pardo Bazan was Spain's leading woman novelist and short story writer, and also a critic, journalist and fierce campaigner for women's rights. This book examines Pardo Bazan's growth into maturity as a novelist during the late 1880s and the 1890s. Hemingway argues against the convenient critical division of the author's works into an early 'Naturalist' and later 'spiritual' phase. Concentrating on four novels published during this time the author demonstrates that Pardo Bazan's writing shows an increasing interest in psychology; the ambiguity and...