Pardo Bazán, Emilia (1852–1921)

Spanish writer. She was the author of more than 20 novels, 600 short stories, and many articles. Los Pazos de Ulloa/The House of Ulloa 1886 and its sequel La madre naturaleza/Mother Nature 1887, set in her native Galicia, describe the decline of the provincial aristocracy. She also wrote on French and Russian literature and was professor of romantic literature at Madrid from 1916.