ABSTRACT
Carmen de Burgos and Teresa de Jesús, two well-known Spanish women writers, were both successful in their roles as mediators, and this fact has inspired much research since their deaths. Current research on Carmen de Burgos helps US to understand how we exist in the world. The present relevance of the life and work of Carmen de Burgos serves to introduce an important question concerning the focus of this chapter: the relationship of Burgos to other Spanish women authors. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was not enough simply to be a good writer and to be published in prestigious media outlets; if a women writer wanted to remain present in the literary world she had to make a concerted effort to assure her active participation in that realm. Conflict and antagonism walked hand in hand with ideas of solidarity, support and empowerment in the progress of women writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
