María Mercedes Vial

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Vial and the second or maternal family name is Solar.
María Mercedes Vial
Born
María Mercedes Vial Solar

1863 (1863)
Santiago, Chile
Died1942 (aged 78–79)
Santiago, Chile
Other namesSerafia
OccupationWriter
Years active1917–1942
SpouseRafael Ugarte Ovalle[1]

María Mercedes Vial Solar (1863–1942), also known as María Mercedes Vial de Ugarte or by her literary pseudonym Serafia, was a Chilean feminist writer and novelist.[2][3]

Her parents were Wenceslao Vial y Guznián and Luisa Solar y Marín.[3]

For some authors, her work can be framed within so-called "aristocratic feminism", along with other writers such as Inés Echeverría Bello, Mariana Cox Méndez, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández, and the sisters Ximena and Carmen Morla Lynch.[4]

Works

  • Cosas que fueron (novel, Santiago: Zig-Zag, 1917)
  • Amor que no muere (novel, Santiago: Editorial Nascimiento, 1929)
  • Algo pasado de moda : conferencias dadas en el Club de Señoras (Santiago: Impr. Cervantes, 1926)

References

  1. ^ de la Cuadra Gormaz, Guillermo (1982). Familias chilenas: (origen y desarrollo de las familias chilenas) [Chilean Families: (Origin and Growth of Chilean Families)] (in Spanish). Santiago: Editorial Zamorano y Caperán. p. 552. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Lillo, Gastón; Renart, Juan Guillermo (1997). Re-Leer Hoy a Gabriela Mistral: Mujer, Historia y Sociedad [Re-reading Gabriela Mistral Today: Woman, History and Society] (in Spanish). University of Santiago. p. 89. ISBN 9780889270312. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Uribe Muñoz, Bernardo (1934). Mujeres de América [Women of America] (in Spanish). Imp. Oficial. p. 185. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Poblete Alday, Patricia; Rivera Aravena, Carla (Spring 2003). "El feminismo aristocrático: la violencia simbólica y ruptura soterrada a comienzos del siglo XX" [Aristocratic Feminism: Symbolic Violence and Buried Rupture at the Beginning of the 20th Century]. Revista de historia social y de las mentalidades (in Spanish). 1 (7). University of Santiago, Chile: 57–79. Retrieved 28 September 2017.