Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra

Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra
BornMariana de Carvajal y Piédrola
1620
Jaén, Spain
Died1670
Occupationwriter
LanguageSpanish
NationalitySpanish
SpouseBaltasar Mateo de Velázquez

Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra (1620–1670)[1] was a Spanish writer of the Spanish Golden Age.

Biography

Mariana de Carvajal y Piédrola[2] was born in Jaén. She spent her youth in Granada, where she married Baltasar Mateo de Velázquez, a military man, and mayor of Hijosdalgo of the Royal Chancery of Granada. Subsequently, the couple moved to Madrid. In 1663, there is evidence that she wrote 12 comedies, which have disappeared. Some of her novels are set in the city of Úbeda. The genre of her work is referred to as the courtly novel.

Selected works

  • La industria vence desdenes[3]
  • La dicha de Dositea
  • Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas (Madrid, 1663).[4] (It is a work that includes eight novels.)

References

  1. ^ "Carvajal y Saavedra, Mariana de 1620-1670". VIAF. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  2. ^ Rodríguez, María Isabel Sancho (2006). "Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra". Elucidario: Seminario bio-bibliográfico Manuel Caballero Venzalá (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. ^ Santo-Tomás, Enrique García (1996). ""La industria vence desdenes", de Mariana Carvajal y Saavedra: Tradición y revisión del amor hereos en la novela corta del siglo XVII". Revista de literatura (in Spanish). pp. 151–58. ISSN 0034-849X. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  4. ^ Saavedra, Mariana Carvajal y (2005). "Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas" (in Spanish). Instituto de Estudios Giennenses. Retrieved 1 November 2017.