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Casanova, Sofía (1861 - 1958)

Short name Casanova, Sofía
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/86532062/
First name Sofía Guadalupe
Birth name Pérez Casanova
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Alternative name Sofía Perez Eguia y Casanova — Zofia Casanowa-Lutosławska
Date of birth 1861
Date of death 1958
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Sex Female
Place of birth A Coruña
Place of death Poznań
Lived in Poland , Spain
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Frederic Ballell i Maymí, portrait of Sofia Casanova, 1911
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Place(s) of Residence Poland , Spain
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Poesias (1885) 0 0
El doctor Wolski: paginas de Polonia y Rusia (1894) 2 0
Fugaces (1898) 0 0
Sobre el Volga helado. Narracion de viajes (1899) 0 0
Lo eterno: narracion espanola (1907) 1 0
Mas que amor: cartas (1908) 2 0
Una nihilista: novela rusa (1909)
is also a reception: is translation of Nigilistka 		0 0
Princesa del amor hermoso (1909) 0 0
La mujer espanola en el extranjero (1910) 0 0
El pecado (1911) 0 0
El cancionero de la dicha (1911) 2 0
La madeja: comedia frivola en tres actos y en prosa (1913) 0 0
El crimen de Beira-mar (1914) 0 0
Viajes y aventuras de una muñeca española en Rusia (1920) 0 0
Como en la vida: novela (1931) 0 0
Las catacumbas de Rusia roja (1933) 0 0
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Frederic Ballell i Maymí, portrait of Sofia Casanova, 1911 None is portrait of

MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992 - Spain's Women Intellectuals (cf. hyperlink)

KJH Feb '10.

married Polish philosopher Wincenty Lutoslawski in 1887 and thereafter lived principally in Poland, with shorter periods in England (London), Russia (Kazan), Estonia (Tallinn) and Spain (Madrid, A Coruna).
Renowned as a poet from the 1870s; part of Madrid circle around Echegaray and Campoamor. Between 1870s and 1914 establishes herself as a poet, novelist and essayist, and continued publishing in Spain from her base in Poland (Krakow, Warsaw). In 1915, appointed East European correspondent of the Spanish daily newspaper "ABC" (Madrid), and publishes over 800 columns before retirement in 1936. Published two volumes of essays as eyewitness to Russian Revolution in St Petersburg in 1917/18, and a further volume as eyewitness to German invasion of Warsaw in 1939.

Author of travel writing
Translator from Russian, translator from French

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