Ángeles Vicente García (

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, 28 January 1878–1918) was a Spanish

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, author of '' Zezé'', the first novel in

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to have a

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protagonist. From 1920 onwards, all traces of the author have been lost and nothing else is known of her later life.

Biography

Her parents were José María Vicente Nicolás, a native of Murcia, and Inocencia García Belda, a native of Cartagena. In 1888, at the age of ten and after having lost her mother, she left for Argentina with her father and siblings, remaining there until 1906, when she returned to Spain. In Buenos Aires, she joined the

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. She settled in Milan for a few months and there she began to correspond with

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. Then, after a while in Málaga, she settled in Madrid. She started to collaborate with newspapers and magazines. After her first book, ''Teresilla'', was published, she separated from her husband, Cándido Elormendi Goñi, and lived on what she earned from her writing, together with her father and a maid. In 1916, having been widowed, she returned to Buenos Aires, where all traces of her life have been lost. The last two of her works that have been found are the short story ''La sombra que llora'' in magazine ' (Granada, August 1929), and ''La sorpresa'' in newspaper ' (Madrid, 21 March 1932). Both deal with occult themes. Thanks to her stay in Argentina, she became acquainted with Latin American schools of thought and literary movements. She followed

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movements and

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, especially spiritualist stories and

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. She also dealt with social issues and stood for

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. Furthermore, she wrote

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. In Madrid, she frequented intellectual circles and met

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as '' modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

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, , and .

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* * * * * 1878 births 1918 deaths Spanish women Spanish women writers Spanish women novelists 20th-century Spanish women 19th-century Spanish women writers 20th-century Spanish women writers Writers from Cartagena, Spain {{DEFAULTSORT:Vicente, Ángeles

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