María Mercedes Vial Solar (1863–1942), also known as María Mercedes Vial de Ugarte or by her literary pseudonym Serafia, was a Chilean feminist writer and novelist.[2][3]

María Mercedes Vial
Born
María Mercedes Vial Solar

1863 (1863)
Santiago, Chile
Died1942 (aged 78–79)
Santiago, Chile
Other namesSerafia
OccupationWriter
Years active1917–1942
SpouseRafael Ugarte Ovalle[1]

Her parents were Wenceslao Vial y Guznián and Luisa Solar y Marín.[3]

For some authors, her work can be framed within so-called "aristocratic feminism", along with other writers such as Inés Echeverría Bello, Mariana Cox Méndez, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández, and the sisters Ximena and Carmen Morla Lynch.[4]

Works edit

  • Cosas que fueron (novel, Santiago: Zig-Zag, 1917)
  • Amor que no muere (novel, Santiago: Editorial Nascimiento, 1929)
  • Algo pasado de moda : conferencias dadas en el Club de Señoras (Santiago: Impr. Cervantes, 1926)

References edit

  1. ^ de la Cuadra Gormaz, Guillermo (1982). Familias chilenas: (origen y desarrollo de las familias chilenas) [Chilean Families: (Origin and Growth of Chilean Families)] (in Spanish). Santiago: Editorial Zamorano y Caperán. p. 552. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Lillo, Gastón; Renart, Juan Guillermo (1997). Re-Leer Hoy a Gabriela Mistral: Mujer, Historia y Sociedad [Re-reading Gabriela Mistral Today: Woman, History and Society] (in Spanish). University of Santiago. p. 89. ISBN 9780889270312. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Uribe Muñoz, Bernardo (1934). Mujeres de América [Women of America] (in Spanish). Imp. Oficial. p. 185. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Poblete Alday, Patricia; Rivera Aravena, Carla (Spring 2003). "El feminismo aristocrático: la violencia simbólica y ruptura soterrada a comienzos del siglo XX" [Aristocratic Feminism: Symbolic Violence and Buried Rupture at the Beginning of the 20th Century]. Revista de historia social y de las mentalidades (in Spanish). 1 (7). University of Santiago, Chile: 57–79. Retrieved 28 September 2017.