Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921)
Spain | Novelist, literary critic, and journalist
Official poster of the Emilia Pardo Bazán centennial celebrations in Madrid.
BIOGRAPHY
Born into an aristocratic family in La Coruña, Spain, on September 16, 1851, Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa Figueroa was a novelist, a scholar, and a women’s right activist. Thanks to her supporting family, she had an extensive education in both the arts and in the sciences.
She became known for her 1883 polemical essay “La cuestión palpitante” (“The Critical Issue”) in which, while discussing Émile Zola and French naturalism, she introduced Russian and French literary movements to Spanish readers and presented a distinctive view of naturalism.
Her prolific short narrative production is accompanied by a novels focusing on the physical and moral degradation of the Galician landed gentry such as Los Pazos de Ulloa (1886) and La madre naturaleza (1887) and more psychological novels such as Insolación (1889) and Morriña (1889).
A professor of Romance Literature at the University of Madrid, in 1916 she was appointed to ta Chair in Literature, a unusual distinction for a woman in those days.
She died in Madrid on May 12, 1921.
Emilia Pardo Bazán
CHRONOLOGY
Cronología de Emilia Pardo Bazán - Biblioteca Nacional de España
Cronología de Emilia Pardo Bazán - Cervantes Virtual
FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTIONAL WEBSITES
SELECTED WORKS at IU BLOOMINGTON LIBRARIES
WORKS by EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
Pascual Lopez (1889)
Un viaje de novios (1881)
Cartas de buena amistad (2016)
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1996. Pascual López: autobiografía de un estudiante de medicina [1879]. Edited by José Manuel González Herrán and Cristina Patiño Eirín. Oleiros; Santiago: Ara Solis; Consorcio de Santiago.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1971. Un viaje de novios [1881]. Barcelona: Editorial Labor.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1968. La Tribuna [1883]. Introduction by José Hesse. Madrid: Taurus.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 2017. Los pazos de Ulloa [1886]. Edited by Ermitas Penas. With an essay by Darío Vilanueva. Madrid: Real Academia Española.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 2014. La madre naturaleza [1887]. Introduction, notes and edited by Ermitas Penas. Madrid: Castalia.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1970. Insolación [1889]. Introduction by José Hesse. Madrid: Taurus.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1990. Cuentos completos. Edited by Juan Paredes Núñez. Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrie de la Maza, conde de Fenosa.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1999. Obras completas. Madrid: Fundación José Antonio de Castro.
Pardo Bazan, Emilia. 2016. Cartas de buena amistad. Epistolario de Emilia Pardo Bazán a Blanca de los Ríos (1893-1919). Edited by Ana Maria Freire López and Dolores Thion Soriano-Mollá. Madrid: Iberoamericana.
EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN'S WORKS in ENGLISH
La Tribuna (2017)
The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin (1906 )
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1891. A Wedding Trip [Un viaje de noivos, 1881]. Translated by Mary J. Serrano. New York: Cassell, 1891.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1891. The Swan of Vilamorta [El cisne de Vilamorta, 1885]. Translated by Mary J. Serrano. New York: Cassell, 1891.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1992. The House of Ulloa: A Novel [Los pazos de Ulloa, 1886]. Translated with critical introduction by Roser Caminals-Heath. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 1906. The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin [El misterio, 1903]. Translated by Annabel Hord Seeger, Illustration by Raphael Bodé. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906.
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. 2017. La Tribuna [La tribuna, 1883]. Spanish and English edition. Translated, with an introduction and notes by Graham Whittaker. Liverpool. Liverpool University Press.
Additional works by Emilia Pardo Bazán available at IU Bloomington Libraries.
CRITICISM and INTERPRETATION of EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN'S WORK (selection)
Whole Faith. The Catholic Ideal of Emilia Pardo Bazán (2018)
Crafting the Female Subject (2009)
From the Outside Looking in (2010)
Género, nación y literatura (2013)
Burdiel, Isabel. Emilia Pardo Bazán. Barcelona: Taurus, 2019.
Charques Gámez, Rocío. Emilia Pardo Bazán y su Nuevo Teatro Crítico. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2011.
DuPont, Denise. Whole Faith: The Catholic Ideal of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
McKenna, Susan M. Crafting the Female Subject: Narrative Innovation in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009.
Parrón, Carmen. Arte y Literatura en La cuestión palpitante y las novelas cortas de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
Pereira-Muro, Carmen. Género, nación y literatura: Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura gallega y española. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2013.
Romero López, Alicia. Lo fantástico 'hoffmaniano' en ocho cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang GmbH, 2019.
Versteeg, Margot. Propuestas para (re)construir una nación: el teatro de Emilia Pardo Bazán. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2019.
Walter, Susan. From the Outside Looking In: Narrative Frames and Narrative Spaces in the Short Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Newark, DEL: Juan de la Cuesta, 2010.
BIOGRAPHY of EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
Bibliografía descriptiva de estudios críticos sobre al obra de Emilia Pardo Bazán (2001)
Martos, Ana. Biografía canalla de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Madrid: Ediciones Oberon, 2017.
BIBLOGRAPHY of EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
Scari, Robert M., and Francisco Rodríguez Nogales. Bibliografía descriptiva de estudios críticos sobre la obra de Emilia Pardo Bazán; A Descriptive Bibliography of Critical Studies on the Work of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
CULTURAL MAPS
Plano de Marineda Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán: con localizaciones de sus cuentos y sus novelas. Segovia: Aventuras Literarias, 2021.
Additional works on Emilia Pardo Bazán and her works available at IU Bloomigton Libraries.
ORIGINAL WORKS and CRITICISM in OPEN ACCESS
Emilia Pardo Bazán, periodista contemporánea - Selection of articles by Emilia Pardo Bazán published in various newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, and published in her La vida contemporánea. Portal de la Bibliotecas de Madrid.
Emilia Pardo Bazán’s works digitized and in ePub – Biblioteca Digital Hispánica of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
Emilia Pardo Bazán’s works – Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Digitized works by Emília Pardo Bazán's – Europeana Collections
Letters by Emilia Pardo Bazán to Benito Pérez Galdós – Archivo de la Real Academia Española
Digitized letters by Emilia Pardo Bazán – BDPI, Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio
Emilia Pardo Bazán’s works – Project Gutenber (in Spanish and English)
Audio books by Emilia Pardo Bazán – Librivox
ONLINE AUDIO and VISUAL RECORDINGS
Emilia Pardo Bazán en la Real Academia de España – May 12, 2021.
Los Lunes de Pardo Bazán: seis especialistas que tratan la figura de Emilia Pardo Bazán al detalle – RTVE Play Radio.
Emilia Pardo Bazán: A biographical documentary – Produced by Zenit TV.
Emilia Pardo Bazán - SER Historia, November 9, 2020.
Los Pazos de Ulloa | Emilia Pardo Bazán (Un libro una hora 14) - SER Podcast, November 20, 2020.
La madre narulareza | Emilia Pardo Bazán (Un libro una hora 49) - SER Podcast, January 9, 2021.
Insolacion | Emilia Pardo Bazán (Un libro una hora 87) - SER Podcast, March 8, 2021.
Movies based on Emilia Pardo Bazán's life and her works - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
Documentaries about Emilia Pardo Bazán - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS and TRIBUTES
Emilia Pardo Bazán. El reto de la modernindad - Virtual exhibition at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, - June 9 - September 26, 2021. See the catalog of the exhibition here.
Concierto Miquito mío – Concert organized for the exhibition Emilia Pardo Bazán. El reto de la modernidad. Biblioteca Nacional de España, streamed live on June 29, 2021.
Emilia Pardo Bazán: (re)creación de una escritora - Biblioteca Nacional de España, streamed live on June 16, 2021
Retratos de Emilia Pardo Bazán y de su familia en la Colección Lázaro - Biblioteca del Museo de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.
Emilia Pardo Bazán: mujer de vasta ilustración y fino ingenio - Biblioteca Histórica Municipal de Madrid
RELATED LINKS
Guía bibliográfica de la biblioteca de Emilia Pardo Bazán – Bibliographical guide of Emilia Pardo Bazán's library, curated by the Spanish National Library.
Los articulos de Emilia Pardo Bazán sobre el papel de la mujer en en De siglo a siglo – María Luisa Pérez Bernardo (University of Dallas) in Letras del XIX, Centro Virtual Cervantes.
Emilia Pardo Bazán - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Illustrated cultural map of the city of Madrid and Spanish women writers.
Articles about Emilia Pardo Bazán published in the Spanish neswpaper El País.