Key Points

• Introduced the literary movement of Naturalism to Spain

• Her literary naturalism presents a rude rural aristocratic society in steady decline

• Also a journalist, translator and literary critic

• Pioneer as a female professor of literature, at the University of Madrid

• Wrote enchanting prose, poetry and plays

• Independent woman and forerunner defender of women's rights

Relevant Works

• Pascual López (1879)

• Un viaje de novios (1881)

• Los pazos de Ulloa (1886)

• Una cristiana

• La quimera

• Cuentos de mi tierra