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Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra

Spanish writer

Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra
Born	Mariana de Carvajal y Piédrola 1620 Jaén, Spain
Died	1670
Occupation	writer
Language	Spanish
Nationality	Spanish
Spouse	Baltasar Mateo de Velázquez

Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra (1620–1670)^[1] was a Spanish writer of the Spanish Golden Age.

Biography

Mariana de Carvajal y Piédrola^[2] was born in Jaén. She spent her youth in Granada, where she married Baltasar Mateo de Velázquez, a military man, and mayor of Hijosdalgo of the Royal Chancery of Granada. Subsequently, the couple moved to Madrid. In 1663, there is evidence that she wrote 12 comedies, which have disappeared. Some of her novels are set in the city of Úbeda. The genre of her work is referred to as the courtly novel.

Selected works

La industria vence desdenes^[3]
La dicha de Dositea
Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas (Madrid, 1663).^[4] (It is a work that includes eight novels.)

References

^ "Carvajal y Saavedra, Mariana de 1620-1670". VIAF. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^ Rodríguez, María Isabel Sancho (2006). "Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra". Elucidario: Seminario bio-bibliográfico Manuel Caballero Venzalá (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^ Santo-Tomás, Enrique García (1996). ""La industria vence desdenes", de Mariana Carvajal y Saavedra: Tradición y revisión del amor hereos en la novela corta del siglo XVII". Revista de literatura (in Spanish). pp. 151–58. ISSN 0034-849X. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^ Saavedra, Mariana Carvajal y (2005). "Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas" (in Spanish). Instituto de Estudios Giennenses. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

External links

Digital edition of Navidades de Madrid, at the Biblioteca Virtual de Andalucía
Works of Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra at the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas: edición digital de seis novelas. A digital annotated edition of six novels from Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra’s collection Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas (1663), prepared by students in SPAN 365: Female Authors and Empowerment in Spain’s Golden Age (Gettysburg College, Spring 2021)