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Emilia Pardo-Bazan and the Americas*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
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The centenary of the birth of Doña Emilia Pardo-Bazán in 1852 is being celebrated with an enthusiasm which indicates that at last her remarkable qualities are properly appreciated. Most of the centenary celebrations stress her creative work as the author of the novels Los Pazos de Ulloa and La Madre Naturaleza. Her fictional writings are so distinguished that there is a tendency to forget that her historical and critical works are unusual and worthy of study. It may be relevant to note here that she wrote several books about the Franciscan movement and that she was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Her two-volume San Francisco de Asís (1882) was highly praised by Pope Leo XIII, and she celebrated the fourth centenary of the discovery of America in her study Los Franciscanos y Colón (1892).
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The author will publish a full-length study of Pardo-Bazán in the near future.
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2 Hernán Cortés y sus hazañas, p. 138.
3 The vegueros are cigars produced in the Cuban vegas (tobacco plantations) situated chiefly in the Vuelta Abajo, south of the Sierra de los Organos. The Americans did not give Cuba its freedom until the Conventions of November, 1900, and February, 1901, so that at the 1900 Exhibition they could exhibit vegueros and habanos as their own.
4 Coffee was introduced into Puerto Rico from Santo Domingo in 1736 and became an important object of contraband through the nearby Dutch West Indies. It subsequently rose to be the chief product of the island, its export value in 1897 being over twelve million pesos, three times that of sugar. The United States has encouraged the growing of pineapples (pinas) in Puerto Rico, but Cuba still leads in this respect.
5 Abacá (musa textilis, commonly but wrongly known as “Manila hemp”) is the main product of the Philippines. Red sandalwood (pterocarpus santalmus) grows there in considerable quantities.
6 The two principal varieties of oranges grown in Southern California are the Washington Navel and the Valencia Late. This “Valencia” orange really came from the Azores and was gratuitously labeled “Valencia,” at the suggestion of a Spanish laborer, by A. B. Chapman, who introduced it into California about 1870.
7 Cuarenta días en la exposición, p. 68.
8 1896; new edition, New York: Duffield, 1906. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor (born in Chicago, 1865) was a scholar and journalist. He has written on various subjects including, in the field of Romance literature, Molière, a Biography (1906) and Goldoni, a Biography (1913).
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24 Pardo-Bazán wrote an extremely favorable study of Gumplowicz (“La Biblia del hombre de estado,” Vida contemporánea, pp. 101 ff.). Gumplowicz’s imperialist theories provide a good justification for the Spanish conquest of America.
25 Valera’s letters dealing with South America are gathered together in Vols. XLI-XLIV of his Obras completas.
26 Retratos y apuntes literarios, p. 261.
27 Cartas americanas, II, 167 ff.