Regina de Lamo

Regina de Lamo Jiménez (7 September 1870 – 17 November 1947) was a Spanish intellectual, a very versatile activist until the arrival of the Francoist dictatorship in Spain. She was a pianist, teacher of music and singing, writer, journalist, feminist proponent and activist for women's rights, promoter of the cooperative economic model, defender of syndicalism and anarchism, and propagandist. She signed her writings as Regina Lamo Jiménez, Regina de Lamo Ximénez, Regina Lamo de O'Neill, and under the pseudonym Nora Avante.

Biography Regina de Lamo Jiménez was born on 7 September 1870 in the Andalusian town of Úbeda, Jaén. Her father, Anselmo de Lamo, and her mother, Micaela Jiménez, were liberals and gave their daughter a complete education. To change to a less traditional environment that would allow Regina and her brother, Carlos, to develop with an education more in keeping with the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, they moved to Madrid when she was six years old, in 1876.

She appeared continuously in news stories about social movements in the 1920s and 30s. She was the founder of the first Banco Obrero (Worker's Bank), in Valencia in 1920, and of the Cooperativa Obrera publishing house. Together with Lluís Companys and , she wrote for La Terra magazine. and campaigned for the use of breastplates on the horses ridden in these events. At that time the picadors' horses were often gored by bulls, and the unpleasant spectacle was aggravated when, in the same arena, they sewed the horses' intestines back into their abdomens so that the picadors could continue to make use of them.

She collaborated with Hildegart Rodriguez and Irene Falcón at the Marxist feminist publishing house Nosotras. She prefaced Federica Montseny's book Escrits politic and also Las reivindicaciones femeninas by in 1927. She took care to publish the final editions of the works of Rosario de Acuña, a famous writer and companion of her brother Carlos de Lamo Jiménez, of whom she became a good friend.

Selected works El ensayo ¿Cómo se mide la inteligencia infantil? Ed. Eiocos, 1923 Prologue of Escrits Politics by Federica Montseny, Ed. Luís Romero, Madrid, 1925 La Colegiata, La Novela Roja Collection, No. 4, Ed. Pegaso, 1926 Prologue of Las reivindicaciones femeninas by , 1927 Biografía: El Vals eterno de Juan Strauss, 1942