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April 30, 2025
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From March 3 to April 30, the Peñafiel Municipal Library will host the exhibition Under a Woman's Pen. Unamuno's Female Correspondence . This exhibition project is produced by the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language Foundation and the Unamuno House-Museum of the University of Salamanca. It is scheduled to take place at this library in collaboration with the Valladolid Provincial Council and Peñafiel City Council.

The exhibition is based on research undertaken by the University of Salamanca on an extensive selection of letters sent to Miguel de Unamuno in the first third of the 20th century, which are housed in the Unamuno House-Museum in Salamanca. USAL professors Maribel Rodríguez Fidalgo and Adriana Paíno Ambrosio, together with Ana Chaguaceda Toledano, director of the Unamuno House-Museum, are the curators of this exhibition, which integrates valuable and rich testimonial material, previously unknown, such as the role of women during this period, the changes experienced by society, an insight into the cultural and political leaders of the time, and the multitude of vital concerns that all of them wish to share with the famous thinker. Beneath the lines of these letters also emerges a particular image of Miguel de Unamuno that emerges from the answers the emissaries seek from him.

The female epistolary corpus is made up of letters from more than 600 women, from which well-known names have been selected for the exhibition panels, such as Carmen de Burgos, Enriqueta Carbonell, Concha Espina, Carmen Conde Abellán, María Luisa García-Dorado Seirullo, Lola Membrives, María de Maeztu, Margarita Xirgu, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concepción del Valle-Inclán, Gabriela Mistral, Sofía Casanova, Matilde Brandau, Eugenia Astur, Magda Donato, Margarita Ferreras, Ángela Barco, Josefina de la Serna, Mariblanca Sabas Aloma, Renée Lafont and Regina Lamo de O'Neill. Around twenty panels offer profiles of these women and reproduce some of their most significant letters.

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  • Postal address Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Peñafiel - C/ Conde Lucanor, 4. municipality of Peñafiel . NaN. Valladolid