LINDA GOULD LEVINE is Professor of Spanish at Montclair State College, New Jersey, where she also teaches Women's Studies. She has published critical studies on the Spanish novelist, Juan Goytisolo as well as feminist criticism on numerous contemporary women authors of Spain and Latin America, including Ana Maria Moix, Carmen Martin Gaite, Esther Tusquests, and Isabel Allende. With Gloria Feiman Waldman, she is coauthor of Feminismo ante el franguismo: Entrevistas con feministas de Espana.ELLEN ENGELSON MARSON is Associate Professor of Spanish at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She has published articles on contemporary Spanish poets, among them, Jose Angel Valente, Ana Maria Moix, and the novisimos, and is the author of Poesia poetica de Jose Angel Valente. Her current work explores the relationship between gender consciousness and poetic expression in contemporary women poets from Spain.GLORIA FEIMAN WALDMAN is Chair of the Foreign Languages Department and Professor of Spanish at York College, CUNY, where she also teaches Women's Studies and Latin American Studies. She has published a critical study on the Puerto Rican writer, Luis Radael Sanchez, and translations and articles on feminist criticism and contemporary Latin American theater. With Nora Glickman, she has competed an anthology on the presence of the Jew in the Argentine theater.

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: View From a Tightrope: Six Centuries of Spanish Women Writers by Linda Gould Levine and Ellen Engelson Marson Rosario de Acuna by Maria del Carmen Simon Palmer Caterina Albert i Paradis ("Victor Catala") by Teresa M. Vilaros Concha Alos by Ada Ortuzar-Young Josefa Amar y Borbon by Constance A. Sullivan Concepcion Arenal by Estelle Irizarry Maria Victoria Atencia by Sharon Keefe Ugalde Fernan Caballero (Cecilia Bohl de Faber y Larrea) by Martha J. Manier Maria AuRElia Capmany by Barbara Dale May Ana Caro Mallen de Soto by Amy Kaminsky Teresa de Cartagena by Ronald E. Surtz Rosalia de Castro by Kathleen N. March Carolina Coronado by Susan Kirkpatrick Leonor de la Cueva y Silva by Teresa S. Soufas Rosa Chacel by Shirley Mangini Ernestina de Champourcin by Joy B. Landeira Carmen de Burgos ("Colombine") by Elizabeth Starcevic Ana Diosdado by Phyllis Zatlin Lidia Falcon O'Neill by Gloria Feiman Waldman Angela Figuera Aymerich by John C. Wilcox Gloria Fuertes by Ellen Engelson Marson Adelaida Garcia Morales by Yvonne Jehenson Concepcion Gimeno de Flaquer by Maryellen Bieder Clara Janes by Anne M. Pasero Carmen Laforet by Roberta Johnson Maria Teresa Leon by Beth Wietelmann Bauer Leonor Lopez de Cordova by Theresa Ann Sears Marcela de San Felix (Sor Marcela) by Electa Arenal Maria de San Jose (Maria de Salazar) by Stacey Schlau Carmen Martin Gaite by Joan Lipman Brown Maria Martinez Sierra ("Gregorio Martinez Sierra") by Alda Blanco Ana Maria Matute by Maria Carmen Riddel Julia Maura by Patricia W. O'Connor Marina Mayoral by Concha Alborg Ana Maria Moix by Linda Gould Levine Rosa Montero by Kathleen M. Glenn Margarita Nelken y Mausberger by Eleanore Maxwell Dial Teresa Pagamies by Janet Perez Emilia Pardo Bazan by Ruth El Saffar Paloma Pedrero by Iride Lamartina-Lens Soledad Puertolas by Mary Jane Treacy Carme Riera by Margery Resnick Mercage Rodoreda by Nancy Vosburg Montserrat Roig by Geraldine Cleary Nichols Concha Romero by John P. Gabriele Ana Rossetti by Nancy L. Bundy Faustina Saez de Melgar by Cristina Emriquez de Dalamanca Maria del Pilar Sinues de Marco by Catherine Jagoe Teresa de Jesus by Alison Weber Esther Tusquets by Mirella Servodidio Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor by Marcia L. Welles and Mary S. Gossy Selected Bibliography Appendix I: List of Authors by Date of Birth Appendix II: Works Available in English Translation Title Index Subject Index

LINDA GOULD LEVINE is Professor of Spanish at Montclair State College, New Jersey, where she also teaches Women's Studies. She has published critical studies on the Spanish novelist, Juan Goytisolo as well as feminist criticism on numerous contemporary women authors of Spain and Latin America, including Ana Maria Moix, Carmen Martin Gaite, Esther Tusquests, and Isabel Allende. With Gloria Feiman Waldman, she is coauthor of Feminismo ante el franguismo: Entrevistas con feministas de Espana.ELLEN ENGELSON MARSON is Associate Professor of Spanish at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She has published articles on contemporary Spanish poets, among them, Jose Angel Valente, Ana Maria Moix, and the novisimos, and is the author of Poesia poetica de Jose Angel Valente. Her current work explores the relationship between gender consciousness and poetic expression in contemporary women poets from Spain.GLORIA FEIMAN WALDMAN is Chair of the Foreign Languages Department and Professor of Spanish at York College, CUNY, where she also teaches Women's Studies and Latin American Studies. She has published a critical study on the Puerto Rican writer, Luis Radael Sanchez, and translations and articles on feminist criticism and contemporary Latin American theater. With Nora Glickman, she has competed an anthology on the presence of the Jew in the Argentine theater.

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: View From a Tightrope: Six Centuries of Spanish Women Writers by Linda Gould Levine and Ellen Engelson Marson Rosario de Acuna by Maria del Carmen Simon Palmer Caterina Albert i Paradis ("Victor Catala") by Teresa M. Vilaros Concha Alos by Ada Ortuzar-Young Josefa Amar y Borbon by Constance A. Sullivan Concepcion Arenal by Estelle Irizarry Maria Victoria Atencia by Sharon Keefe Ugalde Fernan Caballero (Cecilia Bohl de Faber y Larrea) by Martha J. Manier Maria AuRElia Capmany by Barbara Dale May Ana Caro Mallen de Soto by Amy Kaminsky Teresa de Cartagena by Ronald E. Surtz Rosalia de Castro by Kathleen N. March Carolina Coronado by Susan Kirkpatrick Leonor de la Cueva y Silva by Teresa S. Soufas Rosa Chacel by Shirley Mangini Ernestina de Champourcin by Joy B. Landeira Carmen de Burgos ("Colombine") by Elizabeth Starcevic Ana Diosdado by Phyllis Zatlin Lidia Falcon O'Neill by Gloria Feiman Waldman Angela Figuera Aymerich by John C. Wilcox Gloria Fuertes by Ellen Engelson Marson Adelaida Garcia Morales by Yvonne Jehenson Concepcion Gimeno de Flaquer by Maryellen Bieder Clara Janes by Anne M. Pasero Carmen Laforet by Roberta Johnson Maria Teresa Leon by Beth Wietelmann Bauer Leonor Lopez de Cordova by Theresa Ann Sears Marcela de San Felix (Sor Marcela) by Electa Arenal Maria de San Jose (Maria de Salazar) by Stacey Schlau Carmen Martin Gaite by Joan Lipman Brown Maria Martinez Sierra ("Gregorio Martinez Sierra") by Alda Blanco Ana Maria Matute by Maria Carmen Riddel Julia Maura by Patricia W. O'Connor Marina Mayoral by Concha Alborg Ana Maria Moix by Linda Gould Levine Rosa Montero by Kathleen M. Glenn Margarita Nelken y Mausberger by Eleanore Maxwell Dial Teresa Pagamies by Janet Perez Emilia Pardo Bazan by Ruth El Saffar Paloma Pedrero by Iride Lamartina-Lens Soledad Puertolas by Mary Jane Treacy Carme Riera by Margery Resnick Mercage Rodoreda by Nancy Vosburg Montserrat Roig by Geraldine Cleary Nichols Concha Romero by John P. Gabriele Ana Rossetti by Nancy L. Bundy Faustina Saez de Melgar by Cristina Emriquez de Dalamanca Maria del Pilar Sinues de Marco by Catherine Jagoe Teresa de Jesus by Alison Weber Esther Tusquets by Mirella Servodidio Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor by Marcia L. Welles and Mary S. Gossy Selected Bibliography Appendix I: List of Authors by Date of Birth Appendix II: Works Available in English Translation Title Index Subject Index