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HANNAH LYNCH AND SPAIN HANNAH LYNCH e-ISSN 2610-9360 Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica 12 ISSN 2610-8844 — Hannah Lynch and Spain Collected Journalism HURTLEY GIFRA-ADROHER, of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 edited by Pere Gifra-Adroher and Jacqueline Hurtley Edizioni Ca’Foscari Hannah Lynch and Spain Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica Serie diretta da Enric Bou 12 Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica Direzione scientifica Enric Bou (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Comitato scientifico Raul Antelo (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil) Luisa Cam- puzano (Universidad de La Habana; Casa de las Américas, Cuba) Ivo Castro (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Pedro Cátedra (Universidad de Salamanca, España) Luz Elena Gutiérrez (El Colegio de México) Hans Lauge Hansen (Aarhus University, Danmark) Noé Jitrik (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Alfons Knauth (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Deutschland) Dante Liano (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italia) Antonio Monegal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, España) José Portolés Lázaro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España) Marco Presotto (Università di Bologna, Italia) Joan Ramon Resina (Stanford University, United States) Pedro Ruiz (Universidad de Córdoba, España) Silvana Serafin (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia) Roberto Vecchi (Università di Bologna, Italia) Marc Vitse (Université Toulouse-Le Mirail, France) Comitato di redazione Ignacio Arroyo Hernández (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Vincenzo Arsillo (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Florencio del Barrio (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Margherita Cannavacciuolo (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Vanessa Castagna (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Marcella Ciceri (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Donatella Ferro (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) René Lenarduzzi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Paola Mildonian (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) María del Valle Ojeda (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Elide Pittarello (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Susanna Regazzoni (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Patrizio Rigobon (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Eugenia Sainz (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Alessandro Scarsella (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia) Patrizia Spinato (CNR, Roma, Italia) Direzione e redazione Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Ca’ Bernardo, Dorsoduro 3199, 30123 Venezia, Italia [email protected] e-ISSN 2610-9360 ISSN 2610-8844 URL http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/collane/biblioteca-di-rassegna-iberistica/ Hannah Lynch and Spain Collected Journalism of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 edited by Pere Gifra-Adroher and Jacqueline Hurtley Venezia Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing 2018 Hannah Lynch and Spain. Collected Journalism of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 Pere Gifra-Adroher, Jacqueline Hurtley (eds.) © 2018 Pere Gifra-Adroher, Jacqueline Hurtley for the text © 2018 Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing for this edition cb This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Qualunque parte di questa pubblicazione può essere riprodotta, memorizzata in un sistema di recupero dati o trasmessa in qualsiasi forma o con qualsiasi mezzo, elettronico o meccanico, senza autorizzazione, a condizione che se ne citi la fonte. Any part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission provided that the source is fully credited. Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venezia http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it | [email protected] 1a edizione dicembre 2018 | 1st edition December 2018 ISBN 978-88-6969-292-5 [ebook] ISBN 978-88-6969-293-2 [print] The present volume is published thanks to the support of the Irish Embassy in Spain, the CER-Institut de Cultura at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Comissió de Recerca de la Facultat de Filologia at the Universitat de Barcelona. Hannah Lynch and Spain. Collected Journalism of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 / Edited by Pere Gifra-Adroher and Jacqueline Hurtley — 1. ed. — Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2018. — 252 p.; 23 cm. — (Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica; 12). — ISBN 978-88- 6969-293-2. 44 URL http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/libri/978-88-6969-293-2/ DOI 10.30687/978-88-6969-292-5 Hannah Lynch and Spain Collected Journalism of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 edited by Pere Gifra-Adroher and Jacqueline Hurtley Acknowledgments A number of institutions and individuals have enabled Hannah Lynch’s writings on Spain to be brought to public attention at the present time. Institutional funding for the project has generously been provided by the Irish Embassy in Spain, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (CER – Institut de Cultura) and the Universitat de Barcelona (Comissió de Recerca – Facultat de Filologia). We greatly appreciate their commitment to our research. We have accessed a number of archives and libraries in Europe and the United States: Archives Mu- nicipales Boulogne-Billancourt, Archives de Paris, Archivo General Militar de Madrid, Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona, Arxiu Diocesà de Barcelona, Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya, Arxiu Contemporani de Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona, Biblioteca de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, British Library, Cambridge University Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Ireland, Registro de la Propiedad de Madrid, Registre de la Propietat de Barcelona, The Library Company of Philadelphia, The Open University. We are most grateful to staff in the archives and libraries for their professional- ism and efforts on our behalf. A number of individuals have also generously contributed time and expertise at significant stages in the project. We are deeply indebted to Faith Binckes and Kathryn Laing for sharing information and providing feedback. Michael Counahan, Lynch’s grand-nephew, promptly responded to our enquiries and was most generous in supplying family memorabilia and granting permission for the reproduction of the photograph of Hannah Lynch which appears in this volume. Without the ready disposition of Bernard Catalan, our French connection, it would have been difficult to find our way through several Parisian archives. The Petites Soeurs des Pauvres in Paris charitably welcomed our inquiries regarding Lynch’s residence at 60/60bis Avenue de Breteuil. Pablo Salvador kindly facilitated contact with Joaquín Sagnier de Sentmenat, 9th Marquis of Sentmenat, and his spouse. For their skills in editorial matters and with computer technology, we are in debt to Aitor Canal, Ramon Maseda, Lluïsa Astruc, Marina Garcia, Marta Manso, Francesca Prevedello and Lluís Gifra. Alba Montaño Spiers’ diligence in carrying through an early search for Lynch material in the Spanish press was of great value. Material from this project was delivered at conferences organised by the Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses (AEDEI) in Granada in 2015 and the Centre for the International Study of Litera- tures in English (CISLE) in Ljubljana in 2018. We wish to express our gratitude to those colleagues present who commented on and encouraged us in our research on Hannah Lynch. The academic advice or readiness to listen provided by Isabel Alonso, Montserrat Cots, Kathleen Firth, Gemma López, Doireann MacDermott, Antonio Monegal, Ana Moya, Maria Morrás, Marta Ortega, Josep Pich and Martín Rodrigo has been greatly appreciated. Finally, thanks are due to Enric Bou for the interest expressed in our work, the enthusiasm and energy he has invested in the publishing process and, not least, for having accepted the project for a series devoted to Iberian Studies. Hannah Lynch and Spain Collected Journalism of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 edited by Pere Gifra-Adroher and Jacqueline Hurtley Table of Contents Note to the Reader 9 List of Abbreviations 11 Preface 13 Introduction: Hannah Lynch and Spain Pere Gifra-Adroher, Jacqueline Hurtley 15 1 Hannah Lynch, a Transnational Literary Career 15 2 Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland: People, Poverty, Politics 21 3 Restoration Spain: a Monarchy Once Again 27 4 Spain and the Irish Gaze 32 5 Newspapers, Journals, Illustrations 35 6 A Dissenting Voice 39 7 The Spanish Novel: Jinny Blake 65 8 The Spanish Travel Book: Toledo: the Story of an Old Spanish Capital 69 9 Conclusion 72 Collected Journalism of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 1 “On Board a Spanish Steamer” (1892) 89 2 “José Echegaray” (1893) 94 3 “Upon Dancing” (1893) 116 4 “The Señora of To-Day” (1894) 120 5 “Along the Spanish Highways” (1894) 125 6 “Around Tarragona” (1895) 134 7 “The Insurrection of Cuba” [The Spanish Commander of the Forces] (1895) 139 8 “A Spanish ‘Master’ at Home” (1895) 143 9 “Santiago de Compostella” (1895) 147 10 “Impressions of the Canary Isles” [Teneriffe] (1896) 153 11 “Impressions of the Canary Isles” [Concluding Paper] (1896) 160 12 “Pereda, the Spanish Novelist” 166 13 “Montserrat” (1897) 182 14 “An Unnoted Corner of Spain” (1897) 186 15 “Toledo” (1898) 199 16 “The Spaniard at Home” (1898) 206 17 “Alfonso XIII” (1900) 224 18 “Rebel Catalonia” (1902) 231 19 “The Girls of Spain” (1903) 245 Hannah Lynch and Spain Collected Journalism of an Irish New Woman, 1892-1903 edited by Pere Gifra-Adroher and Jacqueline Hurtley Note to