| Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer | |
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 ]Portrait photo in the "Feminal" supplement of La Ilustració Catalana (27 March 1910] | |
| Born | María de la Concepción Gimeno December 11, 1850 Alcañiz, Spain |
| Died | 1919 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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| Subject | women's rights |
| Spouse | Francisco de Paula Flaquer |
Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (née, Gimeno; Alcañiz, 1850 - Buenos Aires, 1919) was a Spanish writer, editor, feminist, and transatlantic traveler. She was the author of novels and short stories, as well as non-fiction, including essays, opinion works, social commentaries, and theatrical reviews.
Early life and education
María de la Concepción Gimeno was born in Alcañiz on December 11, 1850. Her father, Juan Gimeno, was a high-ranking military officer and defender of the Bourbon Reforms. Her mother, María Francisca Gil Buizán, after being widowed, married a notary of the court of Zaragoza. She received her education in Zaragoza.
Career
In 1870, she moved to Madrid where she began her career as a journalist in El Correo de la Moda of Madrid. For this magazine, she published 16 articles, the most important ones being those dealing with women. In fact, Gimeno fought for the emancipation of women. Thanks to this magazine, she entered the social and literary circle where she began to have friendships with high-ranking women who were attentive to the emancipation of women. Gimeno became known in the literary gatherings of Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco. She founded and direction La Ilustración de la Mujer. Besides El Correo de la Moda, she collaborated in publications such as La Mujer, and El Ramillete of Barcelona, among others. Her correspondence from the early 1870s with the actor Manuel Catalina is preserved.
Her success and public recognition began in 1883 in Mexico. In August 1883, she went to live in Mexico with her husband. There, she founded the publication El Álbum de la mujer: Periódico Ilustrado. During her stay in Mexico, Gimeno became an example for many women as she was always in favor of women having access to culture and public education. On her return to Spain, she established El Álbum Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1890), as an adaptation of the magazine she founded in Mexico. In Spain, she participated in the most important literary gatherings of the time. Throughout her life, she traveled around the world between Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Germany, Italy and France.
Gimeno was an active defender of women's rights, She wrote novels about marital infidelities, abandonment of women, and convents that served as shelters. Her novel Victorina ó heroísmo del corazón (1873), was published by Ramón Ortega y Frías. Among her other works are La mujer española (1877), El doctor alemán (1880), Elina Durval (1878), La mujer juzgada por una mujer (1882), Madres de hombres célebres (1884), Suplicio de una coqueta (1885), Evangelios de la mujer, Vidas paralelas, Mujeres de regia estirpe, and Culpa y expiación.
Personal life
At the age of 29, she married Francisco de Paula Flaquer, director of the publications La Aurora and El Álbum Ibero-Americano.
She died in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1919.
Selected works
- Victorina o heroísmo del corazón [Victorina or heroism of the heart]. Madrid: Imprenta de la Asociación del Arte de Imprimir. 1873.
- La mujer española [The Spanish woman]. Madrid: Imprenta y librería de Miguel Guijarro. 1877.
- El doctor alemán [The German doctor]. Zaragoza: Establecimiento tipográfico de Calisto Ariño. 1880.
- La mujer juzgada por una mujer [The woman judged by a woman]. Barcelona: Imprenta de Luis Tasso y Serra. 1882.
- Gimeno De Flaquer, Concepción (1895). Madres de hombres célebres [Mothers of famous men]. Madrid: Tipografía de Alfredo Alonso.
- La mujer intelectual [The intellectual woman]. Madrid: Asilo de Huérfanos del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. 1901.
References
- Simón Alegre, Ana Isabel (5 September 2023). Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and Journalism. Vernon Press. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ Bianchi, Marina (2007). "La lucha feminista de María de la Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer: Teoría y actuación". Escritoras y pensadoras europeas [European women writers and thinkers]. ArCiBel Editores. pp. 89–114. ISBN 9788493537487.
- ^ Ossorio y Bernard, Manuel (1889). Apuntes para un diccionario de escritoras españolas del siglo XIX [Notes for a dictionary of 19th century Spanish women writers] (Public domain ed.). Madrid: La España Moderna. pp. 189–207.
- ^ Chozas Ruiz-Belloso, Diego (12 August 2014). "La mujer según el Álbum Ibero-Americano (1890 -1891) de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer -nº 29 Espéculo (UCM)" [The woman according to the Ibero-American Album (1890 -1891) by Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer - No. 29 Espéculo (UCM)]. pendientedemigracion.ucm.es. Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 5 September 2024 – via web.archive.org.
- Simón Alegre, Ana Isabel (2012). "Concepción Gimeno y el ocio teatral madrileño, en 1873". In Arauz Mercado, Diana (ed.). Pasado, presente y porvenir de las humanidades y las artes [Past, present and future of the humanities and arts]. Mexico: AZECME. pp. 433–66. ISBN 978-607-8028-27-6.
- ^ Guerrero, Teodoro (30 September 1890). "Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer". La Ilustración Española y Americana. 34 (36). Madrid: rotecadigital.bne.es: 190–191. ISSN 1889-8394. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Andrés Argente, Josefina de (2007). "Oficio de escritoras". Escritoras y periodistas en Madrid (1876-1926) [Women writers and journalists in Madrid (1876-1926)] (PDF). Área de Gobierno de Empleo y Servicios a la Ciudadanía, Dirección General de Igualdad de Oportunidades, Ayuntamiento de Madrid. pp. 36–83. ISBN 978-84-690-6131-2. OCLC 434534143. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-22 – via Internet Archive.