by Cristina Enríquez de Salamanca · Espasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467063585
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«La casa de las desamparadas» is the historical novel by Cristina Enríquez de Salamanca, published by Espasa in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Valencia, 1854. Casta More, wife of a deputy, is committed by her husband to the Casa de las Desamparadas, run by Mother Micaela, where marginalized women learn a trade. Casta does not know why she is confined; the letters with Carolina Coronado and her serial «Azucena» reveal her tragedy and the abandonment of women at the time.
First work of fiction by Cristina Enríquez de Salamanca, graduate in Law and PhD in Spanish Literature. The novel belongs to the Espasa Narrativa collection.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in 19th-century Spain and the situation of women at the time.
