Clara Campoamor (Madrid, 1888-Lausanne, 1972) was not only the greatest defender of democracy and women's rights, the brilliant speaker who stood out during the time of the Second Republic and the indomitable lawyer who made the causes of the weakest her own. She was also a writer who devoted herself to literature with the same passion and lucidity with which she fought in forums and tribunes.

This volume gathers the most literary essays of all those that Clara Campoamor wrote during her exile in Buenos Aires. The selected texts reveal an unknown author who travels through the life and work of the great poets of the Golden Age, of Romanticism or of New Spanish and Modernist lyric, or who makes a penetrating and crisp reading of some myths in the Spanish culture. Also included are two interviews conducted in the light of her political conquests, which transcend her historical circumstances to reveal to us the wealth of her thought.

Beatriz Ledesma Fernández de Castillejo (Bilbao, 1977) is a writer and literary researcher, Doctor in Hispanic Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid and one of the greatest specialists in the figure of Clara Campoamor in exile. She is the author of Las huellas de Rabindranath Tagore en el mundo hispanico, Contribuciones de Zenobia Camprubí and other studies on the intellectual work of Spanish exiles in Argentina.