Today, March 8th, is the day of the working woman and that is why, from this publishing house that has always supported the silenced, we want to pay a small tribute to all those women writers who had to fight to see their books published. We cannot forget all that we have to fight every day to be respected. Today is not a day to congratulate, but to claim that we have a voice and we want to be heard, so we want to tell you the story of some of the women writers who fascinate us.
In this blog entry we want to make special reference to our collection "Mujeres" (Women), which you can follow in our catalogue. The collection currently contains three books: Cuentos madrileños(Tales from Madrid), written by the well-known author Emilia Pardo Bazán; Navidades de Madrid. Noches entretenidas (Christmas in Madrid. Entertaining nights), written by Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra, an author about whom very little is known and who we talked about in our previous publication; and, last but not least, Maravillosas(Marvellous women), written by Ana Rossetti.
Maravillosas fits in very well with the demands of 8 March, as it tells the story of a group of working women such as an actress, a lawyer and a journalist. These women manage to create support networks that sustain each other, forge inseparable bonds and have really interesting conversations. In this way, they build the history of a neighbourhood in our beloved city, Madrid, called "El Refugio", which later became Maravillas and is now known as Malasaña.
You can get to know the story of these women and many others through the catalogue of our publishing house. In addition, we strongly encourage you to never stop reading and, above all, to read women, because we are the ones who have been silenced for years; we are the ones who have had to hide under male pseudonyms; we are the ones who have had to fight to see ourselves published. We still have time to change this and to create our own support networks and have our own conversations so that we can understand each other.
Yaiza Rodríguez Monroy
