Carlota Alejandra Regina Micaela O'Neill y de Lamo was a Spanish writer and journalist.
15 Facts About Carlota O'Neill
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Carlota O'Neill spent three years and nine months in prison and some years later went into Venezuela and Mexico.
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Carlota O'Neill wrote under the pseudonyms Carlota Lionell and Laura de Noves.
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Carlota Alejandra Regina Micaela O'Neill y Lamo was born on 27 March 1905 in Madrid, the daughter of Enrique O'Neill Acosta, a Mexican diplomat of Irish descent, and Regina de Lamo y Jimenez, a Spanish writer, pianist, passionate defender of unionism and of cooperativism, and a collaborator of Lluis Companys.
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Carlota O'Neill had one sister, Enriqueta O'Neill, a writer, as well as several half-brothers from a previous marriage of her father's.
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Carlota O'Neill was the aunt of the politician and writer Lidia Falcon O'Neill.
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Carlota O'Neill's family moved to Barcelona, where she met Virgilio Leret, a soldier.
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Carlota O'Neill had two children with him, Maria Gabriela and Carlota.
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In July 1936 Carlota O'Neill was in Melilla with her husband and daughters, since Leret was the Head of the Air Force for the Eastern Zone of Morocco and of El Atalayon hydroplane base at Melilla.
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Carlota O'Neill was tried by a military court 18 months after her arrest, and because the facts of the accusation against her were not proven, the judge decreed that the case be dismissed.
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Carlota O'Neill was notified of the decision on 21 August 1936; nevertheless, she was not given her freedom.
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On 18 March 1938, when Carlota O'Neill was in the Victoria Grande prison in Melilla, she learned that her young daughters were being taken to the peninsula.
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Carlota O'Neill overcame the latter and was incorporated by Diego Ramirez Pastor, into the editorial staff of El Correo Catalan as a literary critic and editorial writer.
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Carlota O'Neill's writings were promoted by the Francoist regime, thanks to the relationship of her sister with Jose Bernabe Oliva.
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Carlota O'Neill kept alive the memory of her husband and spread his story, collected in her book Una mujer en la guerra de Espana.