Transatlantic Networks Against Cultural Periphery: The Baroness of Wilson’s Canon and the Spanish and Latin American Women of Letters in the Nineteenth Century

Publications dedicated to women in the nineteenth century opened a space for women editors, writers, translators, and literary agents. The study of specific cases, such as that of Emilia Serrano García (ca.1833–1923), Baroness of Wilson, allows an analysis of cultural practices involved in the consolidation of a women’s Parnassus. Sinués de Marco, Gimeno de Flaquer, Gómez de Avellaneda, Gorriti, Cabello, Matto, or Acosta intertwined in a sort of emotional community. Studying affective relationships as an analytical category makes it possible to describe relational and socializing practices in which the wives of some of the presidents of the main American republics also play a fundamental role of patronage exemplified in the leadership of the international cultural entrepreneurs, such as the Baroness of Wilson.