1. Rosa Clotilde Chacel Arimon was a famous and sometimes controversial writer from Spain.
17 Facts About Rosa Chacel
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In 1915, Rosa Chacel, intrigued by the world of sculpture, enrolled at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, but she soon lost interest in the aforementioned topic and abandoned the school by 1918.
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Rosa Chacel then went on to become a regular at the Cafe Granja del Henar and at the Ateneo de Madrid.
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Rosa Chacel delivered a controversial speech there, after a conference about women and their possibilities.
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Rosa Chacel, nevertheless, went on championing feminism as a new way to live for modern women, and, in 1921, she married a famous painter of the time, Timoteo Perez Rubio.
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That same year, Rosa Chacel wrote her first article for the Ultra magazine.
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In 1930, Rosa Chacel wrote her first novel, Estacion, Ida y Vuelta.
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That same year, the Perez Rubio-Rosa Chacel couple had a child, Carlos.
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Perez Rubio enlisted in the Republican Army and Rosa Chacel performed, among other things, as a nurse.
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The next years Rosa Chacel lived in relative obscurity: a well-known writer but one who had made no new projects in years.
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Rosa Chacel worked in New York until 1961, when, with her home country living a calmed down social state, she returned to Spain.
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In May 1963, Rosa Chacel returned to Brazil, where she remained until 1970, when she returned to Spain for a short stay.
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In 1977, her husband of 56 years died, and Rosa Chacel, who was a very frequent flyer between Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, decided to stay in Spain for good.
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Rosa Chacel used her newly found status as a widow to try to rescue some of her old works and to write more novels.
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Rosa Chacel's works include Acropolis, published in 1984 and in which she writes about the Sapphic Circle of Madrid, of which she was a member along with Victorina Duran, Elena Fortun, and Matilde Ras.
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Rosa Chacel died peacefully in Madrid on Sunday, August 7,1994, aged 96.
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The Spanish national airline Iberia Airlines - a company which Rosa Chacel perhaps saw as it grew - just like in Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza's case, decided to honor Rosa Chacel by naming an Airbus A340 jetliner airliner after her.