"Un puente epistolar entre las dos Españas: Cartas de escritoras exiliadas a Carmen Conde (1940-1980)"

A member of the group of Spanish poets and narrators who worked tirelessly during the prewar years to make literature their main occupation, Carmen Conde remained, at that time, in permanent epistolary contact with both some of the most notable personalities of the Lyceum Club and with young female members of the Madrid association who, like her, were embarking on an enthusiastic and uncertain literary career. The fruitful personal and professional relationships they managed to establish were interrupted during the Civil War. When it ended, Conde remained in Franco’s Spain, from where she wanted to build a bridge of dialogue that would reunite her with Ernestina de Champourcín, Concha Méndez, and María Teresa León, whose lives and works had been forever marked by exile. The analysis of the letters that they sent to the Cartagena poet from the countries where they found refuge from 1940 to 1980 reveals the mutual help and moral support they gave each other, the interest they shared in learning about their respective creations, and the appraisals they made of these. From exile, they celebrated as their own the success achieved by Conde in Spain, where she managed to achieve the goal which, several decades before, had driven them all to embark on a professional path that, for reasons of gender, was not exactly easy in either of the two Spains.