Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879-1926

Christine Arkinstall is a professor of Spanish at the University of Auckland.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 – Transcribing the Past, Writing the Future: Spiritism, Feminism, and an Aesthetics of Emancipation in the Writings of Amalia Domingo Soler (1835-1909)Chapter 2 – Toward the Republic through (R)evolution: Ángeles LÓpez de Ayala (1856-1926)Chapter 3 – Domestic Politics, National Agendas: LÓpez de Ayala’s Literary Works Chapter 4 – Federal Republicanism, Feminism and Freethinking in (Trans)national Arenas: The Sociopolitical Poetics of BelÉn SÁrraga (c.1873-1950)Final ReflectionsWorks Cited

‘Christine Arkinstall has written a thorough and thoughtful book…. The book makes important contributions to the history of progressive movements and of feminism in Spain.’- Martha Ackelsberg (Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature vol 34:01:2015) ‘Arkinstall’s well-written book is both a meticulous historical study and an insightful literary analysis… This is an important book that fills a glaring gap in Spain’s literary history and revises the alleged absence of turn-of-the century female intellectuals from the nation’s socio-political scene.’- Margot Versteeg (SHARP News vol 24:03:2015) ‘This study expands both the literary and the historical scholarship of early Spanish Republicanism, freemasonry, and anarchism while making an indispensable contribution to the histories of early Spanish feminism and the Spanish press.’- Letras Femeninas (A Journal of Women and Gender Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture – winter 2015) ‘This is a fascinating and enlightening work… Highly informative as well as comprising essential reading for the specialist, it will doubtless be of interest to the general reader of this period of European history too.’- Rhian Davies (Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol 94:2017)