New reviews of "Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and Journalism"

Congratulations to Ana Isabel Simón Alegre (Adelphi University), the writer of the book "Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and Journalism" for receiving these reviews from:

• María Jesús Horta Sanz.  Ámbitos Feministas, vol. 12, spring 2024, pp. 182-183. 

[...] hand in hand with Simón Alegre, both in the first part of this work and in the writings she has carefully recovered and edited from Gimeno de Flaquer, we discover an author with a transatlantic profile. This label means that although the writer was born in Alcañiz, Spain, her travels through Central and South America, the Iberian Peninsula, and Europe require us to understand her and her work in the global context of the Ibero-Latin-Hispanic world. Simón Alegre shows us this characteristic of Gimeno de Flaquer, for example, in the way she addressed the situation of women in Spanish-speaking countries: “As a result of her stay in México from 1883 to 1890, Gimeno de Flaquer realized that the problems women had in México were similar to those in Spain, and vice versa” (56).

• Nora Lynn Gardner. Hispanófila, vol. 201, summer 2024,  pp. 217-218.

This monograph compilation reads like a vivid, literary nautical chart. It boldly navigates the biography and extensive literary corpus of author, journalist, and newspaper editor, Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer. Indeed, Ana I. Simón Alegre's meticulous historical research, critical edition, and translation work in this volume succeed in traversing many of the previously unchartered waters of scholarship on Gimeno de Flaquer, including the translation into English and critical annotation of an unprecedented collection of her writings: ten private letters, seven short stories, and seventeen newspaper articles. Structured into five sections: 1. Activist, Editor, Journalist, Intellectual, and Writer, 2. Translator's Notes, 3. Ten Letters, 4. Short Stories, and 5. Selected Journal Articles, Simón Alegre's comprehensive approach provides unique insight into Gimeno de Flaquer's industry and activism, as well as sheds light on the complex web of Trans-Atlantic spaces and economies, personal relationships, and socio-political circles in which she maneuvered between the 1870s and the 1910s, as both an author/journalist and as the founding editor of women-centered periodicals. The English version of this book has been released alongside the Spanish version, a great success on the part of Vernon Press.

The book is available to order here: "Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and Journalism"

This book explores how Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer’s evolution as a writer was closely linked to the development of her political-literary project, in which a feminist activist agenda plays an important role. This critical edition contributes to existing research on Gimeno de Flaquer by examining a collection of texts that have not been studied in-depth.

This monograph-length publication is the first one to feature a translation of significant portions of Gimeno de Flaquer’s work. 'Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and Journalism' includes ten letters that Concepción Gimeno wrote to the Spanish actor and theatre entrepreneur Manuel Catalina y Rodríguez (1820-1886), seven short stories, and a selection of her seventeen most representative newspaper articles.

Title Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and Journalism [Hardback]
Edition 1st
ISBN 978-1-64889-676-7
Published in September 2023