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Brownhills alphabet plate, Aesop's Fables series, The Fox and the Grapes c. 1880. Sharpe's limerick versions of Aesop's fables appeared in 1887. This was in a magnificently hand-produced Arts and Crafts Movement edition, The Baby's Own Aesop: being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. [94]
Antonia Gutiérrez Bueno y Ahoiz (penname Eugenio Ortazán y Brunet; 1781–1874) was a Spanish writer and translator. In 1837, she became the first woman to be granted access to the National Library of Spain.
Aesop may not have written his fables. The Aesop Romance claims that he wrote them down and deposited them in the library of Croesus; Herodotus calls Aesop a "writer of fables" and Aristophanes speaks of "reading" Aesop, [16] but that might simply have been a compilation of fables ascribed to him. [17]
Aesop and the Ferryman; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin; The Astrologer who Fell into a Well; The Bald Man and the Fly; The Bear and the Travelers; The Beaver; The Belly and the Other Members; The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird ...
The Spanish Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida painted his "The Milkmaid" in 1890 and portrays a pensive girl seated on a flowering bank with her bucket overturned beside her. [23] In Kate Greenaway 's painting of 1893 she is seated instead on the steps of a cottage with the pail on the ground [ 24 ] in a treatment that has been described as Pre ...
Alaíde Foppa (1914 – c. 1980), Spanish born poet, published in Guatemala and Mexico; Francesca Forrellad (1927–2013), Catalan writer; Lluïsa Forrellad (1927–2018), novelist and playwright in Spanish and Catalan; Susana Fortes (born 1959), novelist, columnist; Elena Fortún (1886–1952), children's writer, author of Celia, lo que dice
Latin American women have been a force of innovation in poetry in Spanish since the sonnets and romances by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the 17th century. [25] [26] Sor Juana's poems spanned a range of forms and themes of the Spanish Golden Age, and her writings display inventiveness, wit, and a vast range of secular and theological knowledge ...
Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .