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Egeria
Egeria, Etheria or Aetheria was a woman, widely regarded to be the author of a detailed account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. It could be considered as the first Spanish travel book.
Peregrinatio or Itinerarium Egeriae, is addressed to a circle of women at home.
Historical details it contains set the journey in the early 380s, making it the earliest of its kind. It survives in fragmentary form in a later copy—lacking a title, date and attribution. -
994
Wallada or Lubna of Codoba . By Marta
Born in Medina Azahara X century.
She was daughter of Muhammad al-Mustakfi,caliph of Córdoba and the Christian slave Amin'am.She was an Andalusian poetess,great connoisseur of grammar and one of the most influential and important people in the palace Omaya of Córdoba.
Impulsed the creation of the famous library of Medina Azahara.
She opened a palace where she dedicated herself to educate girls.She embroidered her verses on her dresses and had the audacity to participate in male competitions. -
1079
Urraca of Castille
Urraca called the Reckless, was Queen of León, Castile, and Galicia
Born in Burgos, Urraca was the eldest and only surviving child of Alfonso VI of León with his second wife Constance of Burgundy;
Urraca is characterised as prudent, modest, and with good sense.
As queen, Urraca rose to the challenges presented to her and her solutions were pragmatic ones, she laid the foundation for the reign of her son Alfonso VII. -
1334
Doña María Coronel By Francisco Vázquez
LEGENDS OF SEVILLA.
Doña María Coronel was born in 1334. She was the daughter of the mayor of Seville and private adviser to King Alfonso XI.She married Juan de la Cerda, descendant of Fernando III el Santo. And here her misfortunes begin.A few years later he died beheaded for having revolted against the new King Don Pedro I “the cruel one”. Doña María’s husband, four years later, has the same fate. Doña María... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3Gdn5mzGdXt1OmGCPxXCxP6mCORNmrN/view?usp=sharing -
1451
Queen Isabel I By Julio
She was born in the province of Avila and passed away in Valladolid. She was the most important woman in her time.
She had a broad culture of humanities, history, painting, grammar.
She helped the discovery of the New World, the routes of spices and the expedition around the world.
She was very powerful,prudent,wise,very honest,discreet,truthful, clear,without deceit.
A great woman difficult to overcome today. -
1485
Catalina de Aragon By Fernando
One of the greatest Queens in Europe.
She was born in 1485 and died in 1536,alone,sad and perhaps poisoned in a sinister English Mansion.
Catalina received a higher education,she knew Latin and brought to England the love of the humanities that he inherited from his mother. She married Henry VIII and was queen consorted from 1509 to 1533. She was greatly appreciated by the English people.He refused to accept the annulment of his marriage and claimed his nephew Carlos I to defend his rights. -
1567
Isabel Barreto de Castro By Domingo Márquez
Born in Pontevedra in 1567, she was a Spanish navigator and the first woman to hold the position of Admiral of the Navy in the history of navigation, participated in the colonization of the Solomon Islands, the Philippines and Mexico, despite the male chauvinism at this time, she was feared and respected by the men of their crews -
La Roldana By Rocío Jiménez
Luisa Ignacio Roldán Villaviciosa popularly known as La Roldana.
She was born on september 8, 1652 in Seville and she was the first baroque sculptor of the end of the seventeenth century. She died in 1706 in Madrid. -
Agustina de Aragon By Amparo Ruiz
Agustina de Aragon was born on March 4, 1786 in Reus, and died on May 29, 1857.She is buried in the Mausoleum of the heroines of the siles in Zaragoza.
Agustina did not cease her efforts to defend her, Zaragoza,city from the French.On February 21 1809 and the city was unable to withstand the pressure of the Napoleonic troops and fell.
Agustina was taken prisoner and released in an exchange.He toured much of Spain as a cheerleader for the armies,
It was a heroine of the independence war of Spain. -
Mariana Pineda By Jorge and Mª Angeles Alonso
She was born in 1804 in a poor family who gave her in adoption. She married when she was 15 and widowed only three years later with two children.Then she became more involved with the fight against Fernando VII.She took part in secret meetings.In 1830,her home was searched and a 2-meter flag was seized embroidered with the liberal motto,“Equality,Liberty,and Law,”.For this,she was condemned and executed when she was only thirty-six.Federico García Lorca relied on his story to write a play. -
Concepcion Arenal By Félix and Lourdes
Concepción Arenal was born in Ferrol (Coruña) in 1820. She was the first woman to go to university. She was dressed up like a man for go into to college. She was worried every time for the condition of the prisoners of the indigent and the gender equality. She was an activist political. She was died in Vigo in 1893. -
Emilia Pardo Bazán by Clara
She was born in La Coruña 1851 and died in Madrid 1921.
Emilie was the daughter of a Galician noble family. He defended the nights of women in his books and in public life. She was the first professor of literature at the University of Madrid and first press correspondent abroad. -
María Elena Maseras Ribera By Paco Rodríguez
She was born in Tarragona, 25th May 1853, and she died in Mahon, 4th December, 1905.
She was the first woman who studied in the Facultad de Medicina in the Barcelona University.
She finished her studies and she asked for permission to do degree scam and she could do it three years later, because the law did not allow it.
She got an outstanding. -
Carmen de Burgos By Mª Dolores Mellado and Mati Pulido.
She used the pseudonym of Colombine,to write on a newspaper.
Carmen was born in 1867 in Almería.She came from a wealthy family and her father gave her the same education than her brothers.She got married when she was a teenager.
She was a journalist and she fought for the women rights from the newspaper where she worked,in a column titled “the women and the female suffrage”.Her expectations were filled when civil marriage, divorce and female vote were legal in Spain during the second republic. -
Clara Campoamor By Mª José and Isabel Morillas
He was born in Madrid, in the year 1888.
Spanish politician was a pioneer of feminist militancy. Coming from a modest family, he studied law while working at the same time, and graduated from the University of Madrid in 1924.
In 1933 she was a deputy, being responsible for a historic achievement in Spanish history: getting, for the first time, universal suffrage.
The rights of women were represented and defended by this lawyer, who died in 1972 in Lausanne, after a long exile. -
María Moliner
She was born in Panice,Zaragoza on March 30,1900.She studied philosophy.First of all we must highlight his collaboration in the Cossío school (ILE) Maria Moliner taught there.Also lent her enthusiastic collaboration to the pedagogical missions.In 1950, started to write the dictionary of Spanish,it takes fifteen years in front of her typewriter,her pencil and her eraser.Moliner was one of the first Spanish university women,she was proposed to be an Academic Member but finally she was not elected. -
María Zambrano By Isabel Hernández
She was born in Málaga 1904 and died in Madrid in 1991.She studied Philosophy.She was pupil of Ortega Gasset and defender of the Second Republic, that´s why the Civil War exploded she was exiled and her books were not read in Spain although she was one of the main figures of the Spanish thinking.Her strength was only stopped by her weak health.
She had late but great recognition,first woman who received the Prince of Asturias,and was named Favourite daughter of Andalusia. -
Enriqueta Otero, maestra Guerrillera (María das Dores) By Juan
She was born in Castroverde (Lugo) worked as a teacher in San Cosme de Barreiros. After passing the State exam, she moved to Madrid.
She joined The Communist Party and participated in the Spanish Civil War. She was condemned to death, due to international pressures, she was commuted and sentenced to 19 year in 1966 she was released and rehabilitated as a teacher in 1977. She was candidate for the Spanish Parliament. -
Ana María Matute
She was born and died in Barcelona.and was a Spanish novelist known for her sympathetic treatment of the lives of children and adolescents, their feelings of betrayal and isolation, and their rites of passage. She often interjected such elements as myth, fairy tale, the supernatural, and fantasy into her works. She wrote novels and several collections of short stories.
In 2010 she was named the recipient of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. -
Montserrat Caballé By José Mª García
Monserrat Caballé was one of the most important soprano singers in the XX Century. She had a beautiful voice well-known all over the world.
She was born in Barcelona in 1933.She was a woman of humble origins, her mother taught music, a rich family helped her to fulfil his dream. Its singing caused sensation and she was loved by her charming personality, too.She got married and had two children. Monserrat Caballé died in Barcelona 6 October 1918.
She interpreted more than 80 famous characters. -
Lina Morgan by Salud
Mª de los Ángeles López Segovia was born in Madrid, on 20 march 1936 and died 19 August 2015, better know as Lina Morgan was a Spanish film, theatre and television actress and showgirl.
When she was 16, Lina Morgan began working as a showgirl.
Today we can see many of her films.
Many people say that she was a very serious person in her life.
Her work will be always for us. -
Margarita Salas by Ventura
She was born in Canero, Asturias, in 1938.In 1958 she meets Severo Ochoa,who will influence her career and orient her towards biochemistry.In 1964 She went with her husband to the United States to the School of Medicine of the University of New York,where they remained until 1967.In 2016 she became the first woman to receive the Echegaray Medal,awarded by the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences.She has obtained different awards, being named European researcher 1999 by Unesco -
Maruja Torres By Nieves
María Dolores Torres Manzaneda known as Maruja Torres was born in Barcelona,in a Murcian family, her first job was a secretary and she started in journalism at the age of 21.She interviewed important people and did investigative journalism so her works were cut many times.
She was a war reporter in Panamá,she was also in the wars of Hezbollah-Israel and Libanon.
She has obtained many prizes,Planeta, Nadal, Victor de la Serna,
Now she lives in Barcelona, has got a blog and writes articles. -
Luz Casal by Pili
Lus Casal was born in Boimorto, the Coruña, the 11 november 1958.
She is one Spanish singer of pop-rock very important and very beloved in Spain.
She has sold more of 5 million of albums.
In my opinion, she is one strong woman because she has overcome a bad illness and she continues with her musical career.
In concert she is amazing, and I like her music very much. https://youtu.be/LS04M9Mz26E -
Penelope Cruz By Silvia
She is a Spanish actress.She is fourty-four, she was born on 28 April, 1974.She studied ballet and dancing apart from interpretation.She is married since 2010, she got married in California with Javier Bardem, and they have two children,Luna and Leo.
She is short and slim,she has got dark brown eyes.She has got long straight black hair.
She has won several Oscar awards. -
Carolina Marín By Mª José
She was born in 1993 in Huelva.She is a Spanish professional badminton player.She is the reigning Olympic Champion,three-time World Champion,four-time European Champion and a former World's No.1 in BWF rankings in the women's singles,holding the World No.1
She was appointed the brand ambassador of football major Liga for its promotion in other countries.
In 2018,she won the BWF World Championships for the third time, becoming the first ever female badminton athlete to have achieved this feat.
