When Isabel Burdiel (Badajoz, 1958) decided to face the life of Emilia Pardo Bazán , she had been immersed in the archives of the 19th century for many years and cultivating biography, that genre that is a crossroads in which sociocultural history and politics, and which offers the possibility of making a period portrait that transcends the subjective to fix the character at a historical moment. "The first thing a history student is taught," she explains to distance herself from general points of view and prevent herself from all-encompassing and unambiguous views, "is that nothing is understood outside of its context." Therefore,

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