Day 9: February 4

Today, on the other side of the abyss - and also in it, because this book lived in the dark for so long - is the 1925 version of the Cartas a las mujeres de España. In 1925, its author is listed as Gregorio Martínez Sierra, the pseudonym of María O Lejarraga and also, the name of her husband.

I didn't write, "incidentally, her husband."

Because she deliberately chose - according to this documentary - to use her husband's name. She felt that her work, with his name attached to it, would be accepted into the echelons of Spanish literati. Things being what they were then. Her work would be read if they thought a man had written it.

See George Eliot. See the male pseudonyms that the Brontes used. Currer Bell, Ellis  Bell. Like so.

Painful Victory is the first chapter.

I am reading it slowly.

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p.s: I found the whole 1925 version on a site called The Internet Archive.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge