María Mercedes Vial Solar (1863–1942), also known as María Mercedes Vial de Ugarte or by her literary pseudonym Serafia, was a Chilean feminist writer and novelist.[2][3]
María Mercedes Vial | |
|---|---|
| Born | María Mercedes Vial Solar 1863 Santiago, Chile |
| Died | 1942 (aged 78–79) Santiago, Chile |
| Other names | Serafia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1917–1942 |
| Spouse | Rafael Ugarte Ovalle[1] |
Her parents were Wenceslao Vial y Guznián and Luisa Solar y Marín.[3]
For some authors, her work can be framed within so-called "aristocratic feminism", along with other writers such as Inés Echeverría Bello, Mariana Cox Méndez, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández, and the sisters Ximena and Carmen Morla Lynch.[4]
Works
edit- Cosas que fueron (novel, Santiago: Zig-Zag, 1917)
- Amor que no muere (novel, Santiago: Editorial Nascimiento, 1929)
- Algo pasado de moda : conferencias dadas en el Club de Señoras (Santiago: Impr. Cervantes, 1926)
References
edit- ^ de la Cuadra Gormaz, Guillermo (1982). Familias chilenas: (origen y desarrollo de las familias chilenas) [Chilean Families: (Origin and Growth of Chilean Families)] (in Spanish). Santiago: Editorial Zamorano y Caperán. p. 552. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ Lillo, Gastón; Renart, Juan Guillermo (1997). Re-Leer Hoy a Gabriela Mistral: Mujer, Historia y Sociedad [Re-reading Gabriela Mistral Today: Woman, History and Society] (in Spanish). University of Santiago. p. 89. ISBN 9780889270312. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Uribe Muñoz, Bernardo (1934). Mujeres de América [Women of America] (in Spanish). Imp. Oficial. p. 185. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ Poblete Alday, Patricia; Rivera Aravena, Carla (Spring 2003). "El feminismo aristocrático: la violencia simbólica y ruptura soterrada a comienzos del siglo XX" [Aristocratic Feminism: Symbolic Violence and Buried Rupture at the Beginning of the 20th Century]. Revista de historia social y de las mentalidades (in Spanish). 1 (7). University of Santiago, Chile: 57–79. Retrieved 28 September 2017.