Margarita de Mayo Izarra

Margarita de Mayo Izarra (20 July 1889 – 1969) was a Spanish writer, teacher, and journalist.

Professional career Margarita de Mayo, after obtaining the title of teacher of Primary Higher Education, taught at a graduate school for girls in Valdepeñas from 1914 to 1918.

Beginning in mid-1918, she worked at the secretariat of the (JAE), being responsible, from the end of that year until 1924, for teaching in the preparatory section at the .

Of her work, her journalistic side is the best known. Her beginnings as a journalist took place in the 1930s, when she began to publish in the provincial and limited circulation press, such as El Bien Público, a monarchic newspaper of Mahón, and La Correspondencia Militar, Madrid Científico, and Nuevo Mundo of Madrid. She sometimes signed her articles as M. de Mayo Izarra, and in them she tried to familiarize Spanish readers with American cities such as New York and the American way of life. "Planes de trabajo" para la JAE, París, 1925 Obras de Benito Pérez Galdós (edición literaria a cargo de Margarita de Mayo), 1935