chacel, nevertheless, went on championing feminism as a new way to live for modern women, and, in 1921, she married a famous painter of the time, timoteo perez rubio. in 1922 the couple settled in rome after pérez rubio was granted a scholarship at the "academia de españa." that same year, chacel wrote her first article for the "ultra" magazine. in 1927, she and her husband returned to madrid.