What is Emilia Pardo Bazán?
{{Infobox writer | name = Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa | image = Emilia Pardo Bazan (1896).jpg | image_size = 215px | caption = Portrait by {{ill|Joaquín Vaamonde Cornide|es}} (1896) | nationality= [[Spain|Spanish]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1851|9|16}} | birth_place = [[A Coruña]], Spain | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1921|5|12|1851|9|16}} | death_place = [[Madrid]], Spain | occupation = Novelist, short story writer, journalist, critic | period= [[19th century]] | genre= [[Novel]] | movement=[[Literary realism|Realism]] and [[Naturalism (literature)|Naturalism]] | spouse = José Antonio de Quiroga y Pérez de Deza | children = 3 }} [[Image:MonumentoPardoBazánCoruña V3.JPG|thumb|250px|Emilia Pardo Bazán memorial]] '''Emilia Pardo Bazán''' ([[16 September]] [[1851]] – [[12 May]] [[1921]]) (also known as ''Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán'') was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[author]] and [[academia|scholar]]. ==Life== Bazán was born in [[A Coruña]] (also known as La Coruña or Corunna), part of the region of [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular [[novel]]s, including ''Los pazos de Ulloa'' (''The Manors of Ulloa'') and its sequel, ''La Madre Naturaleza'' (''Mother Nature''). She was also known for bringing [[Naturalism (literature)|naturalism]] to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era. Married at eighteen to Sr D. Jos Quiroga, a Galician country gentleman, she interested herself in [[politics]], and is believed to have taken an active part in the underground campaign against Amadeo of [[Spain]] and, later, against the republic. In [[1876]] she came into notice as the successful competitor for a literary prize offered by the municipality of [[Oviedo]], the subject of her essay being the Benedictine [[monk]], Benito Jerónimo Feijoo. This was followed by a series of articles inserted in ''La Ciencia cristiana'', a [[magazine]] of the purest or