Spanish Woman in Love and War

Soledad Fox is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Williams College. She has published articles and lectured on Spanish and French literature, and on exile and autobiographical writing. She spent 2004 as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar researching the life of Constancia de la Mora. This study combines personal documents (unpublished letters, memoirs, and photos) and official government files (from the FBI and the Comintern), and brings together previously unavailable archival materials.

• List of IllustrationsForeword by José Álvarez-JuncoAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionI. Old Spain: Portrait of a FamilyII. The War, 1936-1939: Fighting Fascism from the Press OFficeIII. Mission to New York: Propaganda and DiplomacyIV: Refugee Crisis: From the White House to the BlacklistV. Mexico, 1940-1950: ExileEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

"By addressing the political and sociological meanings of Constancia de la Mora's communism, the author opens up further audiences among historians of twentieth-century Spain while her exploration of how, why and with what consequences de la Mora then concealed this allegiance embeds her story in the domestic political history of twentieth-century America with its central mobilising narrative of anticommunism." -- Professor Helen Graham, Dept. of History, Royal Holloway, University of London"De la Mora is clearly one of the most exciting female figures from the Spanish Civil War. Many issues about De la Mora's life and work have remained a mystery. Dr Fox sets out to unravel those mysteries and to elucidate, through her meticulous and brilliant research, the intricate political intrigues that affected De la Mora's life. Of special interest is the provenance of her excellent autobiography on the war, In Place of Splendor, one of the most compelling memory texts about the war. Fox's surprising findings about the authorship of the book and other mysteries about De la Mora's political activities should provoke much discussion." -- Shirley Mangini, Professor Emeritus