Every September, the Galician coast recalls a writer it never quite knew how to contain. Emilia Pardo Bazán — novelist, short story master, feminist, and Spain’s first female university professor — spent five decades refusing the room society allotted her. On her birth anniversary, we revisit her life, her Gothic short fiction, and the untranslated collection, Cuentos trágicos, still waiting for English-language readers. Continue reading Emilia Pardo Bazán