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María Vinyals María Vinyals y Ferrés (1875–1940s), also known as the Marquise of Ayerbe, was a Spanish publicist and essayist.[1] Biography Born in the Castle of Soutomaior, province of Pontevedra, on 14 August 1875.[2] She inherited goods from her uncles the marquises de la Vega y Armijo.[3] She married Juan Jordán de Urríes, marquis of Ayerbe in 1896.[2] In 1904 she published El Castillo del Marqués de Mos en Sotomayor.[4] Vinyals, became an acquaintance of Emilia Pardo Bazán, María Barbeito and Carmen de Burgos,[4] joined the Ateneo de Madrid in 1906.[5] She founded the Ibero-American Centre for Female Popular Culture, an institution looking to teach girls unable to receive other kind of education.[6] In 1909, following the decease of the marquis of Ayerbe, Vinyals married the Cuban physician Enrique Lluria.[7] A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),[8] Vinyals was affiliated to the Female Socialist Aggrupation of Madrid.[9] She wrote several columns in journals such as El Imparcial, El Fígaro, or Blanco y Negro.[10] She dealt with the importance of female education as tool for social regeneration,[8] she also vowed for the complementarity of man and woman in public management.[11] She moved to Cuba in 1919.[12] She died in Paris during the Nazi occupation of the city in World War II.[12] References
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