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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Chacel, Rosa (1898-1994)Other forms

Dates of existence/Biographical dates:

Valladolid (España) 1898-06-03 - Madrid (España) 1994-07-27

History:

Spanish writer, member of the Generation of ’27. She was born in Valladolid and she passed away in Madrid. Daughter of the teacher Rosa-Cruz Arimón, nephew-granddaughter of the writer José Zorrilla. In 1908 she moved to Madrid to the neighborhood Maravillas to live with her maternal grandmother. She studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid) and there she met the painter Timoteo Pérez Rubio, with whom she would get married later in 1921.

The Civil War changed everything. In 1936 his husband volunteered and Chacel signed the Manifiesto de los intelectuales antifascistas (Manifest of the anti-fascist intellectuals), collaborating with the republican press and working as a nurse. She moved, with her son Carlos, to Barcelona, Valencia and later abroad, to France. Finally, she got together again with her husband and they lived in the exile in Brasil.

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Date of the event: 1936 - 1939

Context:

El fondo documental y biblioteca de la escritora se depositó, por deseo de la autora, en la Fundación Jorge Guillén. El fondo comprende un total de 16 cajas de documentos. La biblioteca se compone de 1.373 volúmenes, y puede ser consultada, como el resto de los fondos bibliográficos de la Fundación Jorge Guillén, en la Biblioteca de Castilla y León.