María Vinyals y Ferrés (1875–1940s), also known as the Marquise of Ayerbe, was a Spanish publicist and essayist.[1]

Portrait by Alviach (c. 1899)

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Vinyals portrayed by Campúa in 1907 along Emilia Pardo Bazán and Faustino Rodríguez-San Pedro.

Born in the Castle of Soutomaior, province of Pontevedra, on 14 August 1875.[2] She inherited goods from her uncles the marquises de la Vega y Armijo.[3] She married Juan Jordán de Urríes, marquis of Ayerbe in 1896.[2] In 1904 she published El Castillo del Marqués de Mos en Sotomayor.[4] Vinyals, became an acquaintance of Emilia Pardo Bazán, María Barbeito and Carmen de Burgos,[4] joined the Ateneo de Madrid in 1906.[5] She founded the Ibero-American Centre for Female Popular Culture, an institution looking to teach girls unable to receive other kind of education.[6] In 1909, following the decease of the marquis of Ayerbe, Vinyals married the Cuban physician Enrique Lluria.[7] A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),[8] Vinyals was affiliated to the Female Socialist Aggrupation of Madrid.[9] She wrote several columns in journals such as El Imparcial, El Fígaro, or Blanco y Negro.[10] She dealt with the importance of female education as tool for social regeneration,[8] she also vowed for the complementarity of man and woman in public management.[11]

She moved to Cuba in 1919.[12] She died in Paris during the Nazi occupation of the city in World War II.[12]

References edit

  1. ^ "El castillo de Soutomaior acoge una muestra sobre la escritora María Vinyals, pionera del feminismo en Galicia". Europa Press. 2019-12-25. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  2. ^ a b García-Fernández, Cernadas Martínez & Ballesteros Fernández 2012, p. 42.
  3. ^ Armesto 1969, p. 460.
  4. ^ a b García-Fernández, Cernadas Martínez & Ballesteros Fernández 2012, p. 43.
  5. ^ Ezama Gil 2012.
  6. ^ Quiles Faz 2014, p. 43.
  7. ^ Bará, Milagros (15 June 2016). "La Marquesa Roja". Diario de Pontevedra.
  8. ^ a b Fernández Vázquez 2004, p. 395.
  9. ^ "Vinyals y Ferrés, María". Fundación Pablo Iglesias.
  10. ^ García-Fernández, Cernadas Martínez & Ballesteros Fernández 2012, p. 45.
  11. ^ Moral Vargas 2012, pp. 76–77.
  12. ^ a b García-Fernández, Cernadas Martínez & Ballesteros Fernández 2012, p. 46.

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