La caridad de una mujer: modernización y ambivalencia sentimental en la escritura femenina decimonónica

Beginning with the last years of the Enlightenment and continuing throughout the nineteenth century, charity represented for women their way of participating in the social and economic changes of their times. This article examines the importance of beneficence and charity in the lives and works of Maria Rosa Galvez, the Countess of Castroterreno, Frasquita Larrea, Cecilia Bohl de Faber and Concepcion Arenal. These women expressed through their actions and their writings, their political and social desires that at times embraced and at times rejected the modernizing impulses in nineteenth-century Spain.