Rosario de Acuña

Rosario de Acuña y Villanueva de la Iglesia, better known by the short name Rosario de Acuña and the masculine pseudonym used for her writings, Remigio Andrés Delafón (18505 May 1923), was a Spanish author of dramas, essays, short stories, and poetry.

Life Born in Madrid, she wrote under the masculine pen name of Remigio Andres Delafon. In 1884, she became the first woman speaker in the Ateneo de Madrid. She was considered to be both controversial and a bold freethinker in her time. Her radical thinking and critique on many controversial subjects of religious dogmatism, atheistic approach, illegitimate births, civil marriage (with the eventuality of divorce) created serious controversies. Cited as the "first woman playwright to have a theater closed down", she died at her own home in Gijón, Asturias on 5 May 1923.

Early life She was born in Madrid in 1851, in a well-to-do family. Taught by her father, she started writing poetry in castilian early in life. Other than that, not much more is known about her early life. to Infantry Lieutenant Rafael de La Iglesia and resided in Pinto (Madrid). Some time later they separated and he died in 1900. She did not marry again.

After the death of her husband in 1900, she shifted to Cueto (Cantabria) and started a poultry farm. At the same time she also started writing for the socialist weekly, Cantabrian and People's Voice. In 1909, she built her house on the top of a hill in Gijon and named her house as "Providence." As an article she had written in a Paris newspaper was very controversial, she was exiled to Portugal in 1911 for two years. On her return she collaborated with Virginia Gonzalez and Theodomir Menéndez (1919) in the activities of the socialist party.

She died at her home in Gijon on May 5, 1923.