My novel, she says, is about how little women are valued. Soledad Maura is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Williams College, Massachusetts.
She earned her PhD at the City University of New York, where she specialized in the impact of Cervantes on Flaubert's work. Since then, she has published works on literary studies and written biographies of figures such as Constancia de la Mora and Jorge Semprún. She has just published her second novel, entitled 'Os escribo a todos.'
This historical novel recounts the adventures of María Manuela Kirkpatrick de Grevignée, which unfold from England to Madrid, passing through Málaga, Granada, and Paris, in a dizzying 19th century where the protagonist and her daughters became the most renowned women in all of Europe, spanning places such as the Duchy of Alba and the French Empire.
