María de Zayas y Sotomayor

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María de Zayas y Sotomayor (born 1590) was a Spanish author of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries. She was one of the first Spanish proto-feminists, and completed ten novels. Her baptism was known to have taken place in Madrid on September 12, 1590, and she was almost certainly born in that city a few days earlier. Very little is known about her life; even her date of death remains a mystery. Death certificates bearing the name María de Zayas have been found in both 1661 and 1669, and it is unknown which (if either) refers to the author.

[edit] Works

  • La tracion en la amistad (Friendship betrayed) (verse play)
  • Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (Amorous and exemplary novels) (prose novel) (1637)

[edit] References

  • Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century. Eds. Katharina M. Wilson and Frank J. Warnke. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
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