Una Educació pròpia: el compromís de les escriptores amb el públic femení = An education of one's own: women wirters' commitment with female public

Abstract

This article focuses on Catalan contemporary women writers undeniable wish to contribute to female education. It points out their awareness of literatures and cultures potential in this sense and the several ways in which these writers combined literary writing and cultural action to provide women with different formative means and spaces (from the psychological novel to the sports club, without forgetting journalism, teaching, public talks, etc.). During the 1920s and the 1930s, politics specially helped to develop a dynamics the tracks of which can be followed all along the xxth century, even under Franco. Hence the overview provided, although some relevant names and the Republican period are considered in further detail. Thus, the article specifically deals, on the one hand, with the well-known cases of Dolors Monserdà, Carme Karr, Maria Aurèlia Capmany and Maria Àngels Anglada; on the other hand, with fiction writers of the 1930s such as Maria Teresa Vernet or Anna Murià, plus other significant personalities of their time (Maria Perpinyà and Llucieta Canyà). The correlative situation of the city of Olot (the place with this paper was originally given) offers a specific framework to close all previous considerations with a final conclusion.