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Writer Carmen de Burgos Seguí was born in Rodalquilar (Almeria, Spain) in 1867. The pseudonym by which more she is known is "Colombine", although also she was using the names "Marianela", "Honorine" and "Raquel". She was born in a farmers' family and at the age of sixteen she married Arturo Álvarez, son of the governor of Almeria, in spite of the opposition of her father. Her first publication was in a satirical newspaper called Almeria Bufa, which she contacted thanks to her father-in-law. In 1894 she initiates studies of Teaching in the University of Granada, against the desires of her husband, obtaining the title of Teacher. Due to problems in her marriage and to the death of her second son, in 1900 she separated of her husband, which provoked a local scandal, and she is moved with her parents. In 1901 she obtained a teacher's position for opposition and gave classes in Guadalajara up to ending up definitively in Madrid. In 1905 they granted her a scholarship to extend studies abroad, and she traveled to France, Switzerland and Italy, writing at arrival on the differences and shortcomings of the educational Spanish system with regard to that of the European countries where she had been. This criticism was not liked the authorities and she was moved as punishment to Toledo to continue with her office of teacher. In 1908 she founded the Alliance Hispanic Israelite whose spreading organ was the Revista Crítica. Also she started collaborating in Spanish newspapers as important as El País and ABC, becoming a writer of El Heraldo and El Nuevo Mundo de Madrid. She was the first Spanish woman with the charge of writer in a newspaper and also the first woman correspondent of war. Her work, both literary and journalistic, was treating in most cases on the liberation of the woman, between them The woman in Spain, The unfaithful one which married much girl and The modern woman and her rights. She was also the first Spanish writer who treated the feminine homosexuality in her works, in a country and an epoch where the lesbianism was ignored and pushed back by the big majority of the society. She knew to many of the literary Spanish figures of the moment as Galdós or Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Carmen de Burgos died in Madrid in 1932, shortly after intervening in the Radical Socialistic Circle of which she was a part.
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