ABSTRACT
The leap by early modern Spanish women writers from the private to the public sphere implies an important step in their social consolidation. Most of the women who went public were occasional poets, but others had a more sustained production and looked for alternative opportunities to become known. Angela Sanchez, Alfonsa Gonzalez de Salazar, Ana de Leiva, Maria de Rada, Ana de Agudo y Vallejo, and Maria Nieto de Aragon, composed laudatory verses for works written by authors of their group, in which they praised, endorsed, and somehow sold others' literary creations. For authors with a limited production of poetry, the pamphlet was the best means of presenting their work individually and immediately to the public. The corpus of poetic pamphlets written by women in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries contains no more than thirty pieces. Of the various themes accounted for within the corpus as a whole, the most cultivated genre is the relacion.
