The first biography of María Cambrils, a Valencian feminist, will be presented on Tuesday, 19th May, at Rector Peset Hall of Residence of Universitat de València. Rosa Solbes, Ana Aguado and Joan Miquel Almela, who are authors; Carmen Alborch, a prologist; and Vicent Olmos, an editor, will take part in this event. The event will start at 19h.
“María Cambrils, the awakening of socialist feminism” is a research book which shows life and work of a Valencian socialist-feminist who was silenced by Franco’s regime and who would keep forgotten. Written by a journalist, Rosa Solbes, a historian, Ana Aguado and an archivist, Joan Miquel Almela, the book is prefaced by socialist senator Carmen Alborch. Vicent Olmos, representing Publicacions de la Universitat de València, will talk also take part.
In 1877, María Cambrils was born in the Cabanyal in Valencia, and she died in Pego in 1939. Now, for the first time, a volume of one hundred articles María Cambrils published in newspapers and magazines during that time have been gathered, as well as her work titled “Socialist feminism”, together with the prologue of her workmate Clara Campoamor, published in 1925 in Valencia.
According to the authors, passionate was the process of looking for the face and figure of María Cambrils. As there were no famous pictures nor paintings of her, it was thought that the name could respond to a pseudonym used by a man. Finally, a hidden photo of María was found in a drawer, which is the cover of the book.
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