Feminism also has its side of exciting adventure, perhaps the most Homeric of all compared to historical burdens of the first magnitude. Hence, novels such as those of Maria Montensinos, Maria Dueñas o Sarah lark among other. It is a vindication of the part of history that women have as an eternal fighter while at the same time they are usually adorned with that nostalgic touch of the nineteenth century or the beginning of the twentieth century.
In other words, we are almost faced with a genre that can absorb all the creative dedication of these authors and that finds a loyal audience, yearning for these adventures with their own romantic point of the time. But in the case of MarÃa Montesinos there is a before, marked by a more current narrative and surely there is an after projecting itself towards new ideas. The point is to enjoy the business of writing while still dazzling new readers.
Top 3 recommended novels by MarÃa Montesinos
an unavoidable decision
Memorable closure for a trilogy loaded with a kind of romantic epic in the most nineteenth-century sense of the term. Because beyond a possible pinkish touch, the plot of this novel, made a chronicle from the intrahistorical, ends up convincing us with its vision between vindictive and transcendent between the costumbrista. An interesting balance that has convinced many readers and that finds the perfect outcome in this apotheosis.
Three years have passed since Victoria traveled to England to marry the aristocrat her father had chosen for her. Now a young widow, her only wish is to return to Madrid to reconnect with the literary and journalistic circles she frequented before her unhappy marriage. However, she must first spend a few weeks at the Riotinto mining operation in Huelva to settle some issues with her British family.
Victoria temporarily settles in the colony of the mine owners, where the luxurious life of the English community contrasts with the miserable conditions of the workers. It will be there that fate brings her two surprises: the unexpected approach of her brother-in-law Philip, a handsome doctor marked by his vocation to help those around him, and the reappearance of Diego, the journalist with whom Victoria lived an impossible love story before. to get married and who arrives in Riotinto, sent by his newspaper, to report on the incipient revolt of the miners.
A destiny of my own
The epic of accomplishment for a woman, any woman, in a not so distant time. The incoceivable notion of a struggle for the mere fact of being. The titanic effort for a denied equality with the authority of ancestral customs. But the world is changing and no one will be able to stop it. A society resists the end of an age. A woman seeks her own destiny.
Some novels have the power to reflect life in all its splendor, take us to a prodigious time, capture the precise moment in which everything was about to change. This is one of those novels.
Micaela is a young teacher who arrived in Comillas, one of the most elegant towns on the Cantabrian coast, in the summer of 1883. There she meets Héctor Balboa, an Indian who has just returned from Cuba after amassing a great fortune and is building a school for the sons - and not the daughters - of the villagers. Micaela then begins her battle so that girls can also receive the education they deserve and need, while an attraction is emerging between her and Héctor capable of breaking down all barriers.
Set at the end of the XNUMXth century, in a decisive historical moment full of contrasts, A destiny of my own tells us about those first brave women who dared to speak out against a society that refused to listen to them.
A written passion
The response expected by readers who discovered in Micaela that new heroine of the everyday, where it is precisely more difficult to rescue justice and truth. In this new installment we reset ourselves and prepare to submit to the intense seismic movements with an epicenter in the nineteenth-century morale of a traditional Spain.
When the young Victoria returns to Madrid after a few years in Vienna, she faces the corseted social life of the women of the Spanish gentry. The time when she frequented the Viennese literary salons and cultivated her love of writing seems to be behind her, but she is not willing to resign herself.
Meanwhile, in the most popular area of ​​the capital, Diego works in the family printer while struggling to open a gap as a reporter. These are effervescent years for journalism, in which the articles in El Imparcial, El Liberal and La Correspondencia are commented on by all Madrid residents. It will be precisely in one of these newspapers where the destinies of Victoria and Diego meet for the first time.
Following the success of A destiny of my own, MarÃa Montesinos continues in A written passion his trilogy about the first women who, at the dawn of the XNUMXth century, dared to fight to be able to practice their profession. Inspired by the true stories of so many journalists forced to hide under a male pseudonym in order to get published, this novel recreates a fascinating historical era and invites us to live an exciting love story.
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The stupid idea of ​​letting you go
Away from the paths of the time, we are even more shocked by this story already more overturned in the present day of the feminine, in the liberation and the new vicissitudes of the feminine in its most romantic and crazy setting.
Julia is a journalist, skilled with pen and words, but a bit of a mess when it comes to love matters. She becomes so blind that she tends to make bad decisions. For example: falling asleep before Fran, the most attractive and arrogant of his colleagues, was a bad idea.
Liaising with Carlos was not so bad, considering that with him she felt sexy and attractive again. And falling in love with Lucas, that crazy entrepreneur who chased her until he seduced her, was the best thing that ever happened to her in her entire life. However, everything was screwed up when, when the moment of truth arrived, she made the decision to let him go. And now that he has returned, how can he look into his eyes without regretting it a thousand times?
