Isabel De Palencia Oyarzábal

ISABEL Oyarzo? BAL PALENCIA (1878-1974) "I can not forget that the leave Norway, on the ship, following a traditional practice gave us a tape of various colors, streamers, we threw the passengers said goodbye to us from the pier. When I threw all the tapes, I saw my hands were on the ends of three only, I joined the land left: red, yellow and purple and I've always felt that it was like a prophetic revelation, that the Spanish leaving Europe was linked to our country by the Republican flag.? Elizabeth O. Palencia. THE VOICE OF THE FIRST SPANISH AMBASSADOR On October 23, 1936 a decree of the Ministry of State appointed an excellent writer, not duly appreciated Malaga-Isabel de Oyarzábal, Minister Plenipotentiary of the legation in Stockholm for the first time fell on a Spanish woman the appointment. The former ambassador, Alfonso Fiscowich, balked at the legation to be replaced by a woman and also "red?. Your stay in Stockholm, Oyarzábal always remember that reception of the diplomatic staff at Christmas 1938, when the King Gustav V raised his glass to toast the "heroic representative of the Spanish Republic?.

They also met the American writer Pearl Sydenstricker Buck who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 and devoted affection words of Republican Spain. The journalist, novelist, playwright, translator, actress, folk singer, political and diplomatic Oyarzábal Elizabeth Smith, also known as Isabel de Palencia, was born in Malaga on June 12, 1878 and died in Mexico City in 1974. The daughter of a bourgeois family, his father was of Basque descent Malaga and Scottish mother. He studied at the convent school of the Assumption in the last year and also gives classes in the school of poor children. He spends the summers in England and Scotland. It works in Sussex, England, as a Spanish teacher. In Malaga, in 1905, Ceferino Palencia know? Alvarez, art critic and son of the famous actress Maria Tubau, with whom he would marry in 1909. Acting debut in Madrid in the work Pepita Tudo, written by her husband. During his time as an actress working for the London news agency Laffan News Bureau and the British newspaper The Standard. With her sister and a friend founded the magazine The Lady and Life Illustrated, the first magazine for women in Spain in 1908.

Start typing in various magazines Spanish The Herald, New World, Black & White and The Sphere. By 1918 he joins the Spanish National Association of Women (ANME), created by the Malaga Maria Espinosa de los Monteros. In 1920 he participated as a delegate to the Congress of the International Alliance for Women's Suffrage, held in Geneva. His section of the newspaper El Sol-Chronicles-Women, the firm as Beatriz Galindo, a pseudonym used also in some of his works and collaborations, as in the newspaper La Voz. It is part of the board of the Lyceum Club, where he was vice president with the Malaga Victoria Kent. In 1929 he was president of the Spanish Women's League for Peace and Freedom and began working as a correspondent for the British newspaper Daily Herald. It is the only woman in the Standing Committee of Slavery in the United Nations. Militant Socialist Party in the 1931 elections is a candidate for deputy of the Constituent Cortes. Government was appointed Chief Executive of the XV International Labour Conference and member of the Board of Vocational Rehabilitation Institute, and a delegate to the League of Nations. Dedicated to the study of international law and labor and in 1933 became the first woman inspector of factories in Spain.

That same year he entered the National Committee of the Spanish Anti-Fascist Women's Association. In 1935 participates as a representative of workers in the International Labour Conference in Geneva. Once that occurs the military uprising of General Franco is part of the Women's Relief Committee. From October to December 1936 across the United States to raise funds on behalf of the Republic. At the beginning of 1939 begins his exile, based in Stockholm en route to New York to settle in Mexico "true land of freedom for thousands of Spanish?. He is a member of the Board of Spanish culture in Mexico. Collaborate in Spain Pilgrim exile magazines, Romance and the Spains, the most prestigious journal of the Spanish exile. He belonged to the College Board Madrid, which included distinguished figures in Mexican and Spanish intellectuals, college was founded in 1941 by the Board of Spanish Refugee Relief (JARE).

Elizabeth O. Palencia translated part of the work of Ellis Harvelock sexual psychology. In 1919, translated by George Eliot Silas Marner, and in 1921, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. His first book, The soul of the child. Trials of child psychology in 1921 and appears two years later, his novel The sower sowed his seed. In 1926 he had collected the lectures given in Paris, London and several U.S. cities on costumes and folklore in the book costume in Spain: its importance as a primitive expression of the aesthetic ideals of the country. In the same year he premiered his play Conversations with the pain. Translate the play by Eugene O'Neill Anna Crhistian, which premieres in Madrid 1931. In exile he published his autobiography, I Must Have Liberty (1940), which has a unique feature, sincerity, as one of its commentators said: "Nothing is hidden from us in this life, or saved material hardship by dint of sacrifice and work or sentimental failures of family life, some serious ... Parading before the reader vividly described are different ways of Spanish life: that of the provincial bourgeoisie of Malaga, and then, in Madrid ...

the theater, where he started in the profession of actress ... the newspaper ... the literary, political, of the League of Nations diplomat and finally she started ... as ambassador to the Court of Sweden?. In 1945 he published smoldering Freedom: the Story of the Spanish Republicans in Exile, which also contains many autobiographical details. In 1947 his book Alexandra Kollontay, Ambassadress from Russia, the Soviet ambassador with whom he formed a great friendship to match it in Stockholm. It also publishes some children's stories such as Saint Anthony's Pig (1940) and John, Son of the Fisherman (1941). In 1948 he published the collection of dramatic dialogues with pain: dramatic essays and a story. When he was 81 years of age is the novel I control my hunger On (1959), whose title corresponds to the sentence pronounced by a journeyman Andalusian expect a chief to buy the vote. Elizabeth O. Palencia in Mexico dies at 96 years of age, despite his immense desire, never returns to his hometown, you've always dreamed of in his long exile. "To this way of talking about Mexicans made me remember my people, because they do not use the purest, but more rough pronunciation of the Spanish.

Smoothly as the Andalusian lisp?. Francisco Arias Solis ... for the second time I go to danger to save the rights of man. (Phrase Salvochea Fermin glossed in the book: 102 reasons to remember Salvochea). Of Internet Portal for Peace and Freedom and Free Forum. URL: http://www.internautasporlapaz.org