Rosalía de Castro
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| Born | María Rosalía Rita de Castro February 24, 1837 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain |
| Died | July 15, 1885 (aged 48) Padrón, Galicia, Spain |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Writing period | Romanticism |
| Literary movement | Rexurdimento |
| Spouse(s) | Manuel Murguía |
Rosalía Castro de Murguía, better known as Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, 24 February 1837 – 15 July 1885), was a Galician romanticist writer and poet.
Writing in the Galician language, after the Séculos Escuros (Dark Centuries), she became an important figure of the Galician romantic movement, known today as the Rexurdimento ("renaissance"), along with Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal. Her poetry is marked by 'saudade', an almost ineffable combination of nostalgia, longing and melancholy.
She married Manuel Murguía, member of the Galician Academy, historian, journalist and editor of Rosalía's books. The couple had seven children: Alexandra (1859-1937, unmarried), Aura (1868-1942), twins Gala (1871-1964) and Ovidio (1871-1900, without having married nor descendants), Amara (1873-1921), Adriano (1875-1876) and Valentina (stillborn, 1877). Though Aura married in 1897 and Gala in 1922, they left no children and thus today there are no living descendants of Rosalía de Castro and her husband. Her son Ovidio was a good painter, but his early death cut his career short.
The date she published her first collection of poetry in Galician, Cantares gallegos ("Galician Songs"), May 17, 1863, is commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, and dedicated to an important writer in the Galician language since 1963.
Relative poverty and sadness marked her life, although she had a strong sense of commitment to the poor and to the defenseless. She was a strong opponent of abuse of authority and defender of women's rights. She suffered from cancer of the womb and died of this illness. Her contemporary was Emily Dickinson, an American, who also wrote poetry. Her image appeared on the 500 peseta Spanish banknote.
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[edit] Works
[edit] In Galician
- Poetry
- Cantares gallegos (1863)
- Follas novas (1880)
- Prose
- Contos da miña terra I (1864)
[edit] In Spanish
- Poetry
- La Flor (1857)
- A mi madre (1863)
- En las orillas del Sar (1884)
- Prose
- La hija del mar (1859)
- Flavio (1861)
- El cadiceño (1863)
- Ruinas (1866)
- Las literatas (1866)
- El caballero de las botas azules (1867)
- El primer loco (1881)
- El domingo de Ramos (1881)
- Padrón y las inundaciones (1881)
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