We celebrate the 275 years of the birth of the daughter of the Sun.
The line of research that I have followed since the year of 2001 (after completing my first doctoral thesis) is heading towards a better knowledge of the poetess and translator Cadiz, María Gertrudis Hore and Ley (1742-1801), aka the Daughter of the Sun. This woman is considered today by American critics as one of the four best Spanish writers of the second half of the eighteenth century.
Its history, its biography and its bibliography were unknown. He repeated tirelessly the same and scarce data to talk about the poetess and many of his publications were ignored. I managed to remove from oblivion many writings, advancing in more than twenty years its first publications (published for the first time with 26 years, married, and not with 45, being nun of Black Veil, as it was believed).
- Frédérique Morand, a poetess in search of freedom: Mary Gertrude Hore and Law (1742-1801). Miscellaneous and intarsia of verses, proses and translations, Diputación Provincial de Cádiz, foreword Françoise Etienvre, Professor Emeritus de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle-Paris III, 2007. (356 pp.)
The duplicity of its existence, half secular (1742-1778), Half Nun (1778-1801) offers a fertile panorama to delve into the experiences of an illustrated and its nearest environment.
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Prize for research in Humanities and social sciences. Alcalá de Henares.
A poetess in search of freedom. Cadiz. Frédérique Morand, Doña María Gertrudis Hore (1742-1801), experience of a poetess from Cadiz between the century and the closing, Alcalá de Henares. (287 pp.) Http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/nd/ark:/59851/bmcft8w9
It is simmered in the virtual sacristy of the Convent a third edition to close a trilogy about a fascinating woman, a renowned Cadiz… But before it is necessary to collect funds to be able to edit the long-meditated essay (500 p.). He invited them with great pleasure to read the conclusion, another formula to know what the readers reserve the essay titled: The Mantle and the Calamus.
