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Dolores Monserdá de Maciá
1845–1919
A pioneering voice in Catalan letters, she wrote novels, poems, plays, and essays while paying close attention to the lives and struggles of women. Her work helped open space for women in public literary life in Barcelona at the turn of the 20th century.
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La Montserrat : Novela de costums del nostre temps
by Dolores Monserdá de Maciá
About the author
Born in Barcelona in 1845 and died there in 1919, Dolores Monserdá de Maciá — also widely known as Dolors Monserdà i Vidal — was a Catalan writer, poet, playwright, essayist, and columnist. She is remembered as one of the early major women writers in modern Catalan literature.
Her writing ranged across poetry, fiction, theater, and journalism. Sources describe her as especially engaged with social questions affecting women, and her work is often linked to a conservative and religious point of view while still defending women’s situation and visibility in society.
She also holds an important place in literary history as the first woman to preside over the Jocs Florals, a major Catalan literary event, in 1909. Today she is valued both for the breadth of her work and for the way she helped bring women’s perspectives into Catalan public and literary culture.